Ig caught the girl’s tender hand, gazing at her beautiful golden eyes, wet with tears, and gently stroking her smooth, silk-like long hair that fell to her waist. He then touched her delicate nose and chuckled, “Veer, you promised to be my maid for a day. It’s unprecedented for a goddess to be a maid, so of course, I can’t let you get hurt.”
“Mmph!” Verafia remembered this promise from a long time ago, made after losing a game. Ig’s mention of it made her fair face blush slightly. She threw herself into Ig’s arms, her jade-like slender fingers twisting his waist hard, and she playfully admonished him, “Hmph, you wicked Ig! How can you make a Goddess Princess be your maid!”
She then quietly raised her small face and saw the slight smile on the young man’s lips. She knew well that this guy Ig wasn’t really asking her to be his maid. He was just teasing her to prevent her from being too troubled.
The girl’s fair face flushed pink again. She punched Ig’s chest once more before turning her face away. She raised her beautiful, moon-like golden eyes to look at Ig and said, “Alright, since you guys are unharmed, don’t linger on my territory anymore. Maintaining this place is very tiring!”
Ig smiled and got up from the wooden bed. He took the young girl’s delicate hand and walked out of the World Tree. With a slight movement of his right hand, the End that had fallen to the ground vibrated with a clear sound and quickly returned to his hand, its soft hum like the joyful expression of a sword spirit maiden.
He then looked at the towering trunk that stretched to the ends of the sky, the world’s gigantic tree filled with endless life. Its canopy was dense, and its sprawling vines almost wrapped around the entire Moonlight Divine Domain. Even in this cold and dark world, it was now shrouded in the radiance of life. Within it, Ig felt as if a world nurturing life was incubating.
Ig couldn’t help but praise inwardly. Gazing at the girl’s beautiful face, he said, “Is this Veer’s World Tree?”
“This is OUR tree.”
Verafia tilted her fair face upwards, her big eyes looking at him, and corrected him, “If it weren’t for Ig blocking Elucia’s moonlight for it, this tree probably wouldn’t have even grown before being completely devoured by the darkness.”
Hearing the girl’s pleasant voice, Ig’s heart fluttered. He couldn’t help but put a sweet smile on his lips and softly tightened his grip on the girl’s small hand as he said, “By the way, this is only the Young Lady’s tree, but it’s still the Moonlight Divine Domain. I wonder, about Goddess Elucia and the others?”
“Elucia and Little Fei? Hmm, they should still be here, but I haven’t had time to find them yet…”
Verafia’s jade hand made a slight swipe through the air. Behind the World Tree, the night curtain opened. She pulled Ig out a step, and the sky shifted, instantly arriving at the end of the moonlight.
At the very core of the Moonlight Divine Domain, the countless branches and leaves of the Tree of Life still extended. Verafia slightly raised her face, and the figures of Ophi and Irene were immersed in the pure moonlight. Goddess Elucia stood before her.
However, just like the entire Moonlight Divine Domain, Elucia’s divine body was also entwined with branches of life, severing the connection of moonlight law, as if imprisoned within the divine radiance of life.
Seeing Verafia approach, the Silver Moon Goddess slightly raised her face. Her gaze remained steady, but with a trace of bewilderment, she said, “Verafia… your life is different from Sister Silurcelis. But you still resisted my moonlight, my darkness. What did you see?”
“I didn’t see anything.” Verafia slightly raised her head, looking at the goddess who was staring at her, and said truthfully.
Although she now knew that the Goddess Elucia before her was the culprit behind the elves’ division and the ensuing war, and that she had almost killed her here, Verafia didn’t hold much resentment towards her.
Perhaps it was because Elucia’s actions were not selfish, or perhaps it was because she did not fully unleash the Moonlight Divine Domain at the end, thus not erasing her.
— Elucia was a true deity, and this was her divine domain. Even if Verafia had planted the World Tree before the moonlight, if Elucia had fully unleashed the moonlight, the World Tree might still have been unharmed, but Verafia’s divine sense and will would have been erased.
This would be at least a thousand-year-long law-inflicted wound, and Verafia might have fallen directly here. Her being able to stand here unharmed was because Elucia saw that the moonlight was not enough to overcome the World Tree, and she chose to stop at the last moment.
In the flowing moonlight, Goddess Elucia continued to gaze at her. Verafia tugged at the golden threads of flowing light and lightly raised her head. Her fair face, as moving as a clear sky after rain, smiled charmingly. “Perhaps it’s because I don’t want to see the world you described… Elucia, you said that we are not limited by the meaning of ‘existence,’ so you are willing to use your laws and will to condense the dark moonlight that shrouds the world.”
“But I don’t think so. The future should belong to beauty, sunlight, harvest, peace, and tranquility… it should belong to the beautiful aspirations of living beings. As for this young lady, being able to be with the person I like and enjoy such a beautiful world is the meaning of my existence as ‘Verafia’.”
Verafia looked at the goddess of moonlight, “If Elucia, you want to leave behind civilization for your people after the abyss descends with a dark world, but such civilization that does not belong to humans or life, what is it but destruction? I want to protect this world that has life and sunlight.”
“Is that so?”
Elucia said. She gently closed her eyes, her slender silver eyelashes covering her pupils. “Civilization with life… Verafia, you are like Sister Silurcelis.”
“Hmm, I can’t reach Silurcelis’s level. Actually, just as I said to you just now, I just want to be in a beautiful world with the person I like. At most, like the promise to Silurcelis, I will take good care of her citizens for her.”
Hearing Elucia’s praise, Verafia stuck out her small tongue and scratched her beautiful hair with a hint of embarrassment.
“There is no difference. Verafia, although I still don’t think highly of your vision, at least, you have overcome the dark moonlight. You have won.”
Elucia gently shook her head, her slightly opened pupils gazing at Ig, whom the girl was gently holding. “Human boy, your sword blocked the abyss. Is that true eternity?”
Verafia also looked at Ig with curiosity.
As she had just said, if it weren’t for Ig blocking Elucia’s moonlight for her at the last moment, in the cold darkness, whether it was the World Tree or Verafia herself, before the World Tree grew, they would have been swallowed by the deep sea.
Elucia had previously said that Ig’s “Eternal Sword” still needed to be presented with a sword and light. But now, she was asking if it was true eternity.
Ig bowed to the goddess and said, “Your Highness, perhaps it is only a part of eternity.”
“A part of eternity… Even so, it’s not eternity?”
The Silver Moon Goddess lowered her eyelids and said in a low voice. She shook her head, “This is not something I should be concerned about anymore. However… Goddess of Life, human boy, as promised, your friends should now be returned to you.”
As her voice faded, Ophi and Irene, immersed in the moonlight, floated towards them. Verafia quickly moved her mind, and the branches of life rose to catch them.
At the same time, the moonlight condensing the divine domain around them continuously dissipated, and Elucia’s divine body gradually decomposed into streaks of fine fluorescent light. In the brilliant silver radiance, the two condensed beams of moonlight flowed into the bodies of the two girls.
“Goddess of Life, you have defeated me. Then, according to your wishes, protect this world that we care about.”
chapter 182 Reunion of the Young Girl_text
The divine body of the Silver Moon Goddess scattered into shattered moonlight. As the deity departed, cracks spread and collapsed throughout the Moonlight Divine Domain.
Watching Elucia dissipate before her eyes, Verafia blinked her long eyelashes. Instead, she felt an inexpressible emotion.
Ig walked to the girl’s side, looking at her snow-white face, which appeared even more beautiful under the embellishment of a few soft moonlight rays. He gently took her slightly cool, tender hand and said, “Veer, are you thinking about Goddess Elucia?”
“Yes… After all, she is one of the few legendary deities. When I received the oracle, this young lady even received her blessing.” Verafia slightly raised her face, her bright golden hair touching the moonlight and slipping down her temples. She gazed at the gradually dissipating moonlight.
Just as she had said, perhaps because Elucia had restrained herself and had not truly harmed those she cared about, Verafia did not hold much resentment towards her. However, thinking about it again, if she had become an ordinary elf who lost her home and family due to the Black Moon Tide, would she still have treated her with such a calm demeanor?
Thinking of this, Verafia shook her head with some sadness.
Ig held her small hand and smiled. “At least, you are now the Goddess Princess of the elves. You will protect them.”
“Goddess Princess? Hmm… Actually, I shouldn’t be in this position. I don’t know if I can become a qualified goddess.”
Verafia slightly raised her head, looking at the moonlight in the sky, which was closing like a magnificent fireworks display. She then couldn’t help but recall the passionate feeling she had when she accepted the title of Hero. Now, she felt a sense of loss.
Although she had changed considerably compared to when she was the Goddess of Blazing Flame, Verafia still didn’t believe she would be like the original Lothel. She was still a selfish girl, simply wanting to protect the future she wanted to see and the people she cared about.
Ig could feel the girl’s conflicted emotions, but he didn’t say much. He simply stood by her side, silently promising, holding the girl’s small hand.
The moonlight gradually faded. In a short time, the tranquil starry sky reappeared before their eyes. However, this divine domain did not collapse. The World Tree’s branches spread across the sky, absorbing most of the moonlight’s origin in the divine domain while also sustaining this world.
The moonlight divine spark floated in the tranquil night sky. Having lost its deity’s laws, it appeared incredibly dim compared to the brilliant and dazzling radiance it had when Elucia possessed it.
Verafia tiptoed and gently reached out her tender hand to pluck it. It felt like a small piece of the moon, and a thread of coolness was transmitted.
And Elucia’s most essential moonlight law, as she took out the moonlight from her divine body, was returned to Ophi and Ezeria. Verafia slightly turned her head, and the dragon girl and the moon elf girls also reopened their eyes as the moonlight dissipated.
“Wuwu, Vera.”
Ophi saw the blonde girl’s gaze lift slightly. Her beautiful small face revealed a gentle smile, and her clear blue eyes became moist. She threw herself onto Verafia’s chest, burying her head and sobbing softly.
Although she had been forcibly extracted of her moonlight and drawn into this divine domain, immersed in the moonlight of Goddess Elucia, at that time, she was also a part of the Silver Moon Goddess. She knew how much danger Verafia had faced after entering this divine domain to save her.
What she welcomed into her delicate embrace was also the soft and high chest of the dragon girl. Verafia raised her fair face and also casually rubbed it. Of course, she, as a girl now, was quite accustomed to it, only feeling jealousy and grievance at most.
“Alright, alright, we’re all fine. Even the dark elf who bullied Little Fei is dead.”
However, now was not the time to tease this dragon girl. Verafia held her in her arms and gently comforted her. Since Ophi was kneeling in front of her, she could also stroke the dragon girl’s beautiful blue-tinged long hair that flowed like moon silk, and gently wipe the tear-stained face of the girl, she said with a charming smile, “Hmm, if Little Fei keeps crying like this, she’ll be even more like a child than this young lady.”
Ezeria stood aside, silently gazing at the two girls embracing. Her slender fingers clasped her own fair palm tightly.
“Miss Ezeria. Are you not injured?”
“Ah.”
The Silver Moon Elf hurriedly responded, raising her eyes. She saw Ig smiling as he walked toward her. “Mr. Ig, I’m fine. By the way, thank you…”
Her voice slightly hitched. Her beautiful face drooped, and in front of Ig, her voice, filled with dejection, softly uttered, “I’m sorry.”
“There’s no need to apologize. This is not Miss Ezeria’s fault.”
Ig looked at Ezeria’s hands tightly clasped in front of her. He knew the girl was blaming herself for being manipulated by Zorglya, so he smiled and said, “Moreover, it was I who failed to protect you back in St. Spring Town. I should be the one to apologize.”
Ezerlia was slightly stunned and opened her mouth slightly as if to say something. Ig smiled and turned around, seeing Verafia softly murmuring and holding the dragon girl as she stood up. He smiled again and said, “However, this is not a place where we should stay for long. Miss Ezeria, let’s leave with Veer first.”
After speaking, Ig got up and walked towards Verafia. Ezerlia clasped her hands slightly tighter, raised her head, and quickly ran towards Verafia, who had turned around and was waiting.
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The moonlight had faded. Elucia’s world still remained as a deity’s domain, a place that even legendary powerhouses could not easily trespass. However, for Verafia, who had sown the World Tree, it was not much of a problem. With a gentle pull of her slender hand, the World’s membrane was immediately opened.
Taking a step with her exquisite feet, she touched the solid ground. Amidst the diffused divine light of life, her delicate high heels made a clear “clack” sound. Verafia lightly tilted her head. The life scenes from the World Tree reflected on her face, the emerald-like bright colors causing her slight discomfort, and she couldn’t help but close her eyes slightly.
“Wow, even this place has been influenced by my laws…”
“Sister Veer!” Verafia’s delicate body had not yet fully returned to the World Tree, and she was still in a state of emotion when suddenly a petite, loli-like figure rushed into her arms. A happy expression was on her small face as she looked up at her.
“It’s Little Fuya.”
Looking at the small loli tightly hugging her with an affectionate look like a little bird, Verafia stroked her beautiful hair and thought with some lightness, first Little Fei, then Little Fuya. Shouldn’t it be this young lady who is being doted on? Why does it feel like I’m pampering a child?
The girl’s beautiful golden eyes slightly shifted. Just as she was about to playfully go to Ig behind her to coax this ‘Young Lady’, the slender figure of the wood elf walked before her, showing a relieved smile. “Veer, you’re really alright.”
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Finally, a wrap-up (actually, there’s still quite a lot I want to write)
