Chapter 241 Dongfeng Night Bloom, Flowers Bloom by Thousands, Scattering Stars Like Rain
“Sister Liliana, what is that?”
In the newly established city of Atlantis.
A little Gray Elf girl sat on the city wall, raising her tender, small face and asking curiously.
There were no sun, moon, or starlight in the abyss.
Therefore, for the residents of the Elf Royal Court, every scene they encountered after leaving the abyss and arriving on the Western Continent was a novel experience they had never had before.
Beside her, Liliana also felt something and looked up at the night sky outside the city wall.
Far above in the sky, a fiery meteor streaked across the silent, dark firmament, its crimson radiance illuminating the dome shrouded in night.
“A meteor?”
Looking at the stars falling from the far sky, Liliana couldn’t help but murmur.
Today’s Liliana was no longer the innocent and ignorant gray elf maiden she once was, but one of the leaders of the Elf Royal Court.
As an elder of the Council Hall, she had also entered the Grand Library of the Royal Court to study ancient scrolls said to have been passed down from the Glorious Era, the most prosperous period of the Royal Court, and carefully studied by Heiser.
And according to the records in the ancient scrolls.
In that brilliant era when gods walked the earth—
Every time a meteor streaked across the sky, it meant the fall of a great being qualified to ascend the divine throne.
“Has a true god fallen in the Prime Material Plane?”
A slight premonition arose in Liliana’s heart.
According to the ancient scrolls, there were differences among Mythical Creatures.
Those Mythical Creatures that had just crossed the legendary boundary were simply demigods, also known as angels in the Glorious Era.
Angels were beings who served the gods. Although they could be considered to have barely entered the divine realm, they could not be called true deities.
Demigods possessed extremely meager divinity and mostly incomplete authority, merely fragmented pieces that could not fully exert the complete power of a domain.
Such demigods did not have the qualification to condense their conceptual constellations in the Astral Realm. Even if they fell, due to their incomplete divinity and authority, their fall would only manifest in the Prime Material Plane and would not directly produce an astral reflection.
Beings who had surpassed the concept of demigods and were qualified to be called gods were Mythical Creatures that had assimilated all the divine fragments of a certain domain and mastered the complete authority of that domain.
For example, the Goddess of Abundance who mastered the authority of harvest, the Goddess of Life who presided over the domain of life, or the God of War, the God of the Silver Moon.
Even in the Glorious Era, they were qualified to be called “minor gods” rather than “angels.”
After the Great Calamity erupted and the Throne of Heaven became vacant, they became the great beings of the Prime Material Plane, condensing their illusory conceptual constellations in the Astral Realm, and possessing their own orders and divine kingdoms on the Western Continent.
They were truly supreme beings.
Therefore, even in the most prosperous divine era, the fall of a deity was an extremely rare event.
Every meteor fall was a major event that shook the continent and was recorded in the heritage of every Intelligent Race that witnessed it.
And at this moment—
The Elf Royal Court had only returned to the Prime Material Plane from the abyss for a few days and had already witnessed a scene that was rare even in the past thousand years.
“Has the Western Continent descended into such chaos?”
Liliana’s premonition grew stronger.
As an elder of the Council Hall, and having even been sent by the leader to explore external intelligence, she had imagined the current situation of the Western Continent.
With the Throne of Heaven vacant and Mythical Creatures walking the world…
Divine wars were bound to become more frequent.
However, it was only now that Liliana realized that the danger and chaos of the Western Continent might have exceeded her expectations.
The meteors were still falling.
They left crimson-gold trails in the night sky, as if in a dream.
Exclamations and praises from the elves could be heard around. Every resident of Atlantis was immersed in the beautiful starlight of the meteors, unable to extricate themselves.
However, looking at the brilliant meteors, Liliana’s heart grew colder and colder.
If she were still the carefree gray elf maiden she once was, Liliana would now be cheering and admiring the magnificent spectacle of the meteors with the surrounding elves.
But now, Liliana was an elder of the Council Hall, one of the supreme decision-makers of this city of Atlantis.
Her every word and action directly related to the fate of tens of thousands of elf residents behind her.
Therefore, Liliana had to set aside her girlish fantasies and learn to be profound and steady, imitating the receding figure of a Golden Elf from her memory, thinking like a leader and a superior.
Given the chaotic situation on the Western Continent… even a true god who had ascended the divine throne had fallen so silently.
Then, what about the Elf Royal Court?
In this age of madness where there was no order and gods resorted to any means to decide the owner of the new era’s Throne of Heaven, could Atlantis truly escape unharmed?
After receiving Shaya’s teachings and completing her wizardry knowledge, Liliana had made significant progress during her years of dormancy in the abyss.
Although the new arcane system did not include the concept of a divine ascent ladder, nor could power and status be measured by terms like demigod, according to Liliana’s self-assessment, her current strength was enough to contend with ordinary demigods.
She had thought that she was now capable of protecting the newly established city of Atlantis from the abyss and securing a foothold for the elves on the Western Continent, surrounded by Mythical Creatures.
But now it seemed…
She and the other elders of the Council Hall had been too naive and optimistic, thinking too simply.
The desolate, barren, and empty bottom of the abyss was both a cage that imprisoned the freedom of the elves and a barrier that protected them.
As the former Elf Royal Court, the Lost Island held too many secrets and legacies that could attract the covetous gazes of other Mythical Creatures.
The abyss was the barrier that blocked all ill-intentioned gazes, allowing the elves to recuperate and heal their wounds from the Great Calamity for five hundred years.
Liliana shivered silently.
The gray elf maiden suddenly thought of a chilling fact that the elves had subconsciously ignored before.
In the early days of the shining era, when the torch of civilization was first lit, other divine races that were born alongside the elves—
Whether it was giants, ancient dragons, dire wolves, griffins, or winged beings… these races, once incomparably powerful, were now buried in the dust of history and could no longer be found.
Perhaps some powerful individuals of these ancient divine races still survived, such as the Goddess of Abundance, whose original race was the Dire Wolf, or the Dragon of Darkness, Augustina.
But these were only individual existences. The prosperous civilizations truly belonging to these races had long since perished for thousands, even tens of thousands, of years.
Only the elves, who had lived in seclusion on the Lost Island and in the cradle of the abyss for a thousand years, and had stayed away from the conflicts of the Western Continent for a thousand years, had survived in this era of declining divinity and rising humanity.
And now, the arrogant elves had left their safe and comfortable cradle and returned to the forest of malice.
Was this truly the redemption of being freed from a cage, as imagined by the current residents of Atlantis… or was it the beginning of the end for the elves, a race that did not belong to this era, as they succumbed to the irresistible tide of history?
…
Such thoughts quickly spread in Liliana’s mind.
In an instant, she even felt a sense of terror that she might become an eternal sinner of the Elf Race.
However, the next moment.
Liliana felt a hand gently pat her shoulder.
“Being able to be vigilant in times of peace and plan ahead is indeed a rare and valuable quality for a leader, Lily.”
“As a future leader of the Elf Royal Court, you have qualified.”
Leisurely words echoed in Liliana’s ears.
The gray elf turned back in surprise, only to see Augustina, shrouded in darkness, who had appeared behind her at some unknown time.
Faint horns could be dimly seen among her black hair, and her golden dragon eyes no longer seemed to be obscured by the night as usual, as if molten crimson gold lava was flowing within them.
“If Shaya knew… that the little gray elf girl he casually petted on the head would grow up to be such an outstanding racial leader.”
“He would probably laugh a few times and then smugly boast that his head-patting ability truly opened up the acupoints of those he touched.”
A hint of a smile flickered in Augustina’s crimson-gold beautiful eyes.
“Leader.”
Liliana turned around, a little surprised and delighted.
Since the awakening of the young man on the Ice Throne, Augustina’s whereabouts had become quite erratic.
Every time Liliana went to the ancient gloomy palace at night to find her, she would find nothing but an ambiguous message: “I’m doing what adults should do, don’t ask too many questions, child.”
Liliana had thought that the leader had already left Atlantis. After all, as the Dragon of Darkness and the last remnant of the Ancient Dragon Royal Court, the Western Continent was her domain.
She had not expected to see the leader here.
It was true, if the leader and that human named Shaya could stay in Atlantis…
Then, even other Mythical Creatures would be nothing to fear.
As soon as such a thought arose.
The next moment, as if her thoughts were read, Liliana heard the graceful low laughter of the Dragon of Darkness.
“Unfortunately, Lily.”
“Neither he nor I belong to this era, nor can we stay in Atlantis for long.”
“This is the Elf Royal Court, the Elf civilization… Humans and dragons are destined to be mere passersby here, not masters of this city.”
“The future of the elves, the future of Atlantis, can only be forged by yourselves.”
“Besides, if that Golden Elf found out that I am occupying the position of leader of the Elf Royal Court and refuse to leave, she would probably complain a few times.”
Augustina’s clear and elegant words involuntarily carried a hint of a smile.
“However, Lily, you don’t need to worry about those little thoughts of yours.”
Her voice paused slightly.
“Since you have chosen to lead the Elf Royal Court back to the Western Continent…”
“Then do you really think he will just let you fend for yourselves in this chaotic era and ignore your city of Atlantis?”
“This is the hometown of his beloved Shī Jiang.”
“Although he always claims to be a hands-off manager who only wants to lie down and slack off.”
Within Augustina’s crimson-gold beautiful eyes, a faint light flowed.
“But in reality, this guy cares more about the promises and responsibilities on his shoulders than anyone else.”
“He’s always like this… taking on everything by himself and not stopping until all variables, all dangers and possibilities are eliminated.”
“It was like this in the Ancient Azure Court, and it was like this in Escarnia.”
“It will be no different this time.”
“This is indeed a civilization belonging to the elves, and we cannot and are unwilling to stay here for too long.”
“However, if we cannot protect Atlantis for long…”
“Then, before leaving, we will eliminate all potential hidden dangers and anything that could pose a threat to Atlantis.”
Augustina’s words made the gray elf’s eyes narrow slightly.
“How about it… isn’t it unreasonable? Overbearing.”
“But Shaya is just such an unreasonable and overbearing guy.”
“The most important thing is that he always succeeds when he does these unreasonable things. Isn’t it infuriating? No, is it infuriating for a dragon?”
A faint curve appeared on Augustina’s fair and flawless cute face.
As she spoke, she slowly raised her dragon race’s golden eyes.
She also cast her gaze towards the high night sky.
At this time, the first fiery meteor had already fallen below the sky, leaving only a fading luminous trail.
Inside Atlantis, the elves also withdrew their gaze. They didn’t have Liliana’s insight and naturally didn’t know the mystical meaning behind the meteor. Seeing the spectacle disappear, they dispersed.
Amidst the general disappointment, only the Dragon of Darkness’s beautiful eyes became brighter.
“I know him too well. He’s always been a guy who likes to show off in front of others…”
“Either he doesn’t do it, or if he does, he makes a scene that shakes the heavens and the earth, a big piece of news.”
Augustina’s words echoed slowly in the gray elf’s ears, hazy and hoarse, as if even her voice was shrouded by the thin veil of the night.
“So, Lily.”
She spoke word by word.
“Don’t you think the scene tonight is a little too small for him?”
The fall of a true god… still too small a scene?
Liliana’s heart was shocked.
Then, a scene greater than the fall of a god…
As soon as this thought arose in the gray elf maiden’s mind.
The next moment.
That incredibly brilliant, incredibly dazzling.
A celestial fall of light, ten, a hundred times more complex and bright than the first meteor, flashed again at the end of the distant sky.
The clear starlight pierced the heavens, illuminating the night.
It also illuminated Augustina’s clear and cold eyes.
She opened her mouth slightly, her pleasant and melodious voice echoing in the night breeze like wind chimes.
This was a poem Augustina had heard a long time ago when she was a little dragon perched on Shaya’s head. Now, she recalled it unconsciously.
“The east wind lets a thousand flowers bloom at night…”
“And blows down…”
“Stars like rain.”
