Chapter: Chapter 104
“How… is she?”
“Her condition is relatively stable, much better than last time.” Kyra looked somewhat haggard; she hadn’t slept since last night.
Although she didn’t participate in the battle, her magic had been thoroughly depleted.
Fatigue had taken over her body. The only reason she remained conscious was because her sister was still asleep, and she couldn’t rest easy about her.
“Your Highness, you should rest. Your current state is not good either.” Sher gently closed the door to Leticia’s room and came into the living room. “Her Majesty’s condition is much better than last time. Her slumber shouldn’t last much longer, don’t worry.”
“And Miss Bai, you should go back as well. I’m here, so you don’t need to worry.”
Sher said to Bai Ling, who was also exhausted. The renowned Sword Saint looked quite disheveled, with several large rips in her clothes, revealing skin with visible old wounds beneath.
Although healed, the faint red marks silently spoke of the difficulty of the battle.
Sher couldn’t even imagine what a terrifying opponent Bai Ling and Leticia had faced to be pushed to such a state even when fighting together.
Leticia was forced to burn herself, and Bai Ling also suffered considerable injuries.
It was truly astonishing that these two, who could be considered the world’s supreme powerhouses, had become so battered even when fighting as a team.
“Sister Sher, I want to speak with Sister Bai alone. May I?” Kyra asked Sher.
Perhaps it was time to find some helpers, especially powerful ones like Bai Ling.
Otherwise, relying only on herself and her sister, they would have almost no ability to fight back against a god.
“…Alright.” Since Kyra had said so, Sher naturally had no reason to refuse.
With Leticia currently unconscious, Kyra was the highest authority in the household. As a maid, Sher naturally could not question her mistress’s orders.
Although, theoretically, Kyra had no authority over Sher.
Sher was Leticia’s maid, and only Leticia’s maid.
“Thank you, Sister Sher.” Kyra understood that she didn’t actually have the right to order Sher around, so she acted with more politeness.
Kyra and Sher weren’t very familiar with each other.
Sher returned to her room and locked the door from the inside, leaving the living room to Bai Ling and Kyra.
“Sister Bai Ling, do you want to know why I so desperately wanted to obtain this ‘Study of Ancient Magic’?” Kyra pointed at the small book placed on the table and asked a question with an obvious answer.
If Bai Ling didn’t want to know, she wouldn’t have gone with Leticia to see Kyra, right?
“In Leticia’s words, this book doesn’t contain anything useful.” Bai Ling nodded. She indeed wanted to know the answer, especially now after encountering someone who called themselves a god.
Kyra picked up the book from the table with a complex expression. “Because this is just a disguise. If you don’t know how to read it, it’s just an ordinary mythology book.”
A faint light shone on her fingertips, and with a gentle swipe across the pages, the pages emitted a faint golden light.
The golden light gradually covered the entire study. When the golden light dissipated, the book that appeared before Bai Ling was a completely transformed one.
“This is the true form of the study. Of course, its common name is actually ‘Book of Prophecies’.” Kyra said softly. “This is the first volume of the Book of Prophecies, and the most important one.”
“The Book of Prophecies of the Demon Race is the second volume, and the Elves’ is the third…”
“What does it prophesy?” Bai Ling frowned, suddenly feeling that things were becoming serious.
Kyra knew a lot about this matter, and according to her, other races also knew about the Book of Prophecies, but humans were completely unaware.
“The return of the gods.” Kyra said solemnly.
“Gods…”
“Once, our world had gods.” Kyra nodded. The Fog God they encountered was one of those countless gods.
That was a very, very long time ago. Humans, demons, elves, and other races hadn’t yet appeared on the land. At that time, the world belonged to the gods.
The gods fought against each other on the land. The strong defeated the weak, devouring their divine powers.
It was like an arena, where only the strongest god could emerge and become the ruler of this world.
At that time, the victorious god could create their own dependents, just like their countless predecessors.
“Things should have gone like this, but one day, a different kind of god appeared.” Kyra told Bai Ling the story as she knew it, bit by bit. “Please forgive me for using the term ‘god’ to describe Him. Compared to those sealed gods, He was the true god.”
“He loathed this bloody and cruel war and personally negotiated with the most powerful gods at the time for a peace plan. However, those gods who considered themselves invincible ignored His proposal.”
“I don’t know what happened after that, but the result was that the god war abruptly ceased, and all the gods disappeared.”
This world suddenly transitioned from the Age of Gods to the Age of Mortals.
No one knew how humans, demons, and elves appeared. Perhaps it was natural evolution, or perhaps seeds left by the gods. In any case, life appeared.
“Our world should have been one, but for some reason, we were separated into different worlds and only discovered each other’s existence a few decades ago.”
“As the worlds gradually fused, the seal of that god also began to loosen. Some ancient gods who were sealed also began to extend their tentacles, attempting to continue the bloody and cruel war of countless years ago.”
After finishing her sentence, Kyra picked up her cup and took a sip of water.
She felt that Bai Ling needed time to digest what she had just said.
Bai Ling did indeed need time to digest. She had initially thought that other races were humanity’s biggest threat, but now, this so-called god had appeared.
Were gods the threat to humanity?
“In that case, why didn’t you tell humans about this? We can cooperate.” Bai Ling didn’t understand why Kyra wanted to buy the human Book of Prophecies to bring back to the Demon Race. It was something that could have been explained clearly, so why make it so complicated?
Bai Ling’s question made Kyra chuckle. “Sister Bai, if a demon told you that humans and demons should unite to fight the gods of mythology, would you believe it?”
Bai Ling remained silent for a long time and then shook her head.
She wouldn’t believe it.
If Kyra hadn’t been Leticia’s sister and her sister’s good friend, she wouldn’t have believed Kyra.
Even if Kyra were a demon princess, she wouldn’t have believed her.
The wars that had lasted for decades had eroded the remaining trust between the various races. Currently, they were more like a temporary truce.
As soon as the time was right, the great war would resume.
