Chapter 56 July Flower I will never lie to you again.

"You took the initiative to kiss me."

After a long time, the breathing sounds in the dark bedroom calmed down again. Zelsa said something in a very low voice, which seemed a little cautious and with a flattering tone.

Ye Yanze closed his eyes in the darkness, turned around, covered his swollen chest, and replied in a muffled voice: "Go to sleep, I'm sleepy."

Luther touched the ring on his hand so many times, and every time he wanted to take it off and throw it away, there was a voice in his mind telling him not to do that. It was an instinctive intuition.

Just like sometimes he could inexplicably sense Luther's condition, he didn't dare to think about it any further. He would not forget that Luther was a person who suddenly appeared and his origins were a mystery.

Ye Yanze's illness lasted intermittently until the first snow of the year fell in the capital. Ye Yanze lost a lot of weight, and it seemed that no matter what method he used, it would still be the same.

Apart from repeated fevers, there were no other symptoms. However, Zelsa noticed his increasingly weakened elemental power, and he often covered his chest in a trance without anyone's knowledge.

But it's useless to force him to talk about things he doesn't want to say.

The bedroom was warm, and there was a fluffy carpet on the floor, which was very comfortable to walk on barefoot. Ye Yanze was wrapped in a blanket, his face was a little pale, and there was a cup of hot tea next to him, which tasted as bad as ever.

There were a few pieces of straw paper with some patterns drawn on them lying on his legs, but he had no intention of looking at them at the moment. He just lay by the window and watched the snow falling.

This window faces the forest behind the temple, where evergreen pines and cypresses are planted. A thin layer of snow has accumulated, and the garden is already bleak. All the colorful flowers have inevitably become withered and yellow leaves.

He was lying on his arms, but his peripheral vision caught sight of a single red rose in a small vase on the side. I don't know how he did it, but maybe it's true that those who work hard will be rewarded?

Ye Yanze leaned forward and took the vase with him. When he got closer, he found that the edges of the soft petals were already wrinkled and dehydrated. He closed his eyes, and a healing golden light shone between his fingers.

Zelsa stood at the door and watched the scene quietly. Ye Yanze himself didn't know that his lips were now bloodless. Every time he blinked, the frequency seemed to slow down, and his platinum eyelashes were like butterfly wings soaked in water.

The golden light was dim, even the candlelight on the side was brighter than it. The floating faint light surrounded his side and no longer scattered around.

Ye Yanze slowly opened his eyes and opened his closed hands. The flowers were still drooping heavily. Ye Yanze stared at the flowers in his hands in a daze, and finally put them back.

"Neil and Lily are here with Aurora to see you. Do you want to meet her?"

Zelsa came in holding a bright red rose, and he casually replaced the ugly one in the vase. Ye Yanze leaned back on the soft sofa and nodded, his face calm, as if nothing had happened.

Zelsa grabbed his feet, found two thick red woolen socks and put them on him. Ye Yanze stretched out his hand to pinch them, looking at Zelsa suspiciously.

"Where do you find the time to weave?"

He coughed softly, pinched his ankle and turned it left and right to check. The socks were so ugly that they didn't match any of Ye Yanze's clothes, but he was a coercer, so he raised his eyebrows and looked at him viciously.

"Don't take it off."

Ye Yanze leaned back, stood up and stepped on it, then crossed his legs and curiously touched and pinched it. He never took his eyes off it and asked him, "It's hard to imagine you knitting wool socks while reviewing official documents."

Zelsa wanted to quickly skip this topic and walked out with him. "Hurry up, Aurora is waiting anxiously."

The first floor below the bedroom is the living room. It used to be filled with gorgeously decorated furniture, but now it is all covered with blankets. There is also a soft sofa, and the fire in the fireplace is burning brightly. It is so hot that people downstairs have taken off their coats.

Ed followed little Aurora who was crawling on the ground, looking nervous. Her parents, on the other hand, looked indifferent and sat aside eating cookies and drinking tea, occasionally looking at the snow scene outside the floor-to-ceiling window.

Not only their family, but also Sunny was there. She was wearing casual clothes, which was a rare occasion for her. She was talking in a low voice to the brown-haired girl beside her. Ye Yanze recognized the girl at a glance. She was one of the apprentice mages from Saint Tobi in the southern tour team.

He stepped away from Zelsa and went down the stairs by himself. After walking a few steps, he saw someone sitting at a small round table. She had red hair, but it was very short, and was also wearing neat clothes. Ye Yanze didn't recognize her from behind.

"Your Highness!"

Ed was the first to react. He looked up at Ye Yanze with red eyes. He had a fever for the past few days and had not been awake for three days. Today, he finally looked better.

When he shouted, everyone looked over, even little Aurora was curious and wanted to crawl towards the stairs.

Ye Yanze nodded slightly, chuckled, and without paying attention to Zelsa behind him, he squatted down and picked up Aurora. Aurora kept looking at him, and when Neil came over to take her away, she turned around and hugged Ye Yanze, unwilling to leave.

Zelsa half-knelt down to look at Aurora lying on Ye Yanze's shoulder, and stretched out his hand to pinch her face, dissatisfied with her behavior of relying on others. Ye Yanze turned around and slapped him, then closed his eyes and put his palm on her back.

Sensing resonance, Aurora's heart lit up for a moment. Ye Yanze looked at Lily and Neil, and reached out to hand Aurora to them, but she refused.

Finally he had to sit down, with Aurora in his arms.

"We moved out from Gaya and have been staying in the capital recently. I heard from Your Majesty that you were ill, so I thought of bringing her to see you."

Lily has improved herself. I hadn't met her many times before, but now I realize that she has a very special temperament, speaks with a strong voice, and is dressed very neatly, but what she says is very appropriate.

With Lily communicating, Neil was too lazy to talk much. He smiled at his wife from time to time and sat close to her.

Ye Yanze asked about Aurora's situation and found that the little girl had fallen asleep on his shoulder. Aurora had a chubby face and the shape of her eyes was exactly the same as Lily's, but the color was the same as Neil's. The thin layer of soft hair on her head was the same color as Lily's, and a little curly.

Seeing him holding Aurora carefully, Zelsa reached out and took her away, returning her to the two happy parents.

"She's not light now. She'll get tired if you hold her for too long." Zelsa sat next to him and whispered closer to him, "Can't you just hold me when you feel empty?"

Ye Yanze glanced at him, a muscular baby who was only about 1.9 meters tall and several hundred months old, and turned his head away in disdain. Only then did he recognize that the woman sitting at the round table was Bella.

Bella smiled, but it was very different from her usual smile. It was not the polite smile that was tense all the time, but calm and relaxed.

"Why didn't you leave? Did he hold you captive?"

Ye Yanze guessed a lot in his mind. Zelsa said that she would not go back on her word after sending her out of the capital, but he didn't know why she chose to go to Eli's territory and take over there.

Bella smiled faintly, looked at Ye Yanze and said, "After all, I am still Bella Eli."

Eli's territory is at the junction of the north and the south. The area is not large, but it is a famous medical capital with lush jungles surrounding it and many potion masters.

But the elemental erosion there is one of the most serious areas after the full-scale outbreak. There are monster attacks, and there are patients who are full of despair and want to come here for treatment even if they are going to die at the hands of monsters.

Bella realized that the world was not what she had imagined after she left the capital. She went all the way back to her hometown, which was so dilapidated that she could not recognize it. There were broken limbs, blood, wailing, and dust.

In order to preserve Eli's territory, her hated aunt led people to fight against the invasion day and night. In the eyes of those people, the cold, selfish and profit-seeking head of the Eli family was their savior and patron saint.

She never stopped hating the aunt who had chosen to sacrifice her countless times, but Bella chose to cut her long hair and tore the soft clothes to bandage the wounded. She did not choose to reveal her identity, but her aunt still found her.

Sheila scolded her mercilessly, saying that she had the identity of a queen, but could not protect a royal court, allowing a pariah to successfully usurp the throne, and how much benefit the Eli family lost. It was the eldest daughter of the Eli family who ended up living in such a miserable state.

Bella was raised by her since she was a child. She learned independence and courage from her, and was also taught to be obedient and sacrifice. She never thought about what she should do, and subconsciously chose the one that was the least laborious. But now...

Bella looked at the patients in the room who had been bandaged by her. Her body and face were covered in dirt, and her skin was much rougher, but without the fishbone waist skirt, she suddenly felt so light.

"Aunt, you should know that I have never been good at wielding power, otherwise Hope would not have tortured me for so many years. Aunt, you can still accuse me here as the head of the Eli family."

Bella's hair was cut in a hurry, and her short hair was messy and stuck to her cheeks. She smiled at her shocked aunt.

"If you are still my aunt, you should be proud of me. Now please ask the head of Eli's family to leave here."

She hated Xila, but how could she hate him purely? It was Xila who raised her up, from the time she could not even walk, and even her current medical skills were taught to her by her. She never understood her aunt, nor did she understand Xila.

She hated her own weakness, stupidity, not being good enough, not being bad enough, not being selfless and kind enough, nor being selfish and ruthless enough.

Until one difficult night, the monster attacked, and the head of Eli's family tried his best to die with the monster. Bella sat on the ground, not hearing the survivors' laughter, but only hearing them shouting Sheila's name.

Hero, head of the family, selfish, selfless, Bella laughed out loud and cried at this moment.

Shira's subordinates found Bella and asked her to succeed the head of the Eli family. Bella was afraid of the power ring, but she finally put it on with trembling. Some did well, some did not, but at least they waited for the support sent by Zelsa.

Ye Yanze kept looking at her with patient waiting, but Bella didn't know what to say, so she just asked him.

“What should I do if I don’t know whether my choice is the right one?”

Ye Yanze shook his head and answered her with a smile: "I don't know either." He lowered his eyelashes and although he was smiling, he looked like he was crying. "I rarely do things right in this matter."

Bella took a deep breath, smiled again, and spread her hands: "Okay." She looked at Ye Yanze, then glanced at Zelsa behind her.

"I should have given it to you separately, but it seems you can't shake off your follower."

She took out a slightly wrinkled letter with Hilt's emblem on it. "I didn't mean to stir up a conflict between you. I was just asked to do so. Luther has helped us a lot."

"I think your majesty wouldn't be so petty."

She bowed as elegantly and standardly as before, except that she was wearing a neat shirt and trousers, her fingers were much rougher, and she wore an Eli power ring inlaid with an emerald on her hand.

Ye Yanze took the letter and turned to look at Zelsa with a sullen face.

"How is it? Your Majesty is not so petty, right?"

Zelsa didn't answer, but just snorted with an ambiguous meaning. Bella came here today to deliver the letter, and after delivering it, she turned around and left.

She had really grown up, choosing the time when Zelsa would allow Lily and Neil to visit, and seizing the opportunity to make sure the letter was delivered to him.

Ye Yanze didn't rush to open the letter. He looked at Sunny and the brown-haired girl beside her who were waiting not far away, and then glanced at Zelsa.

"You arranged this?"

Zelsa didn't say it clearly, but just whispered a name: "Wally." Ye Yanze sneered and looked at Zelsa: "It's hard for you not to use this to threaten me in the end."

Lydia stepped forward and saluted. She led a group of civilian students from Saint Tobi to follow Zelsa. She had made an indelible contribution to the fact that Zelsa now had so many mages under his command.

"Your Highness, Wally is my teacher. He has been busy uniting various departments in the academy to take in disaster victims..." She stopped talking and smiled apologetically.

"Anyway, feel free to ask me anything you want to know."

Ye Yanze lifted his eyelids and glanced at Lydia, then held down Zelsa and said, "You are allowed to risk offending His Majesty by leaking the information like this. It seems that the situation in the capital has suddenly worsened."

How could Ye Yanze not know? He had the memories of two lives, but now this matter could not be solved by him in the original way.

"Yes, the elemental erosion in the capital has worsened. A large number of refugees have poured in from all over the place. If we accept them, it will cause conflicts. If we don't accept them, there will also be conflicts. Not only that, there is also elemental erosion between patients and normal people..."

"Alright." Zelsa gave an implicit warning, and Lydia said nothing more. Zelsa had always been responsible for these things alone, and she couldn't understand why the Son of God was not allowed to come out. At least it could calm people's hearts and alleviate these difficult situations.

Zelsa tucked the blanket around him and said, "But overall, everything is under control. You pushed me up here, and I won't let you down. It's not to the point where I have to have you."

Ye Yanze grabbed his hand, but found that his hand was so cold. He didn't ask anything, but just looked at Lidya again.

"Come with me."

Ye Yanze let go of his hand, looked at Lydia and walked into the small study. Ye Yanze took out a few drawings and gave instructions in a calm voice.

"Tell me everything Wally told you to tell me about the Royal Capital Array."

Lydia took out some yellowed, fragile drawings and some scraps of paper covered with words and handed them over.

"Elemental erosion had already appeared before your father took office. It was just that four great wizards worked together to research this magic circle. They used the capital as the main formation and set up magic circles in various places to resonate."

"The formation is based on devouring and releasing resonance. They sacrificed the elemental energy of the heart to suppress the erosion of elements. Unfortunately, it was not enough and the problem was not completely solved."

"Your father summoned a group of mages to study and modify the magic circle to reduce its effectiveness. In order to protect the royal family, he restricted the magic circle to only those of royal bloodline."

Lydia said it all in one breath. She didn't understand why Ye Yanze needed to know all this. In her opinion, as long as he performed the purification as usual and sent the purification to the magic circle, it would at least alleviate the elemental erosion to a great extent.

After hearing this, Ye Yanze was silent for a long time, so long that Lydia thought he was distracted.

"Okay, you go out first."

Ye Yanze gently traced the patterns on the magic circle with his fingers, and then laughed at himself. In fact, he had already guessed it, but he just had to ask again.

The elemental power in his body operates differently from others. His power does not circulate in his body, but gathers in his heart and radiates outward when used. The annual purification ceremony injects a faint feeling of heart pain during purification.

The word "father" was somewhat unfamiliar to him. When he closed his eyes and recalled it, he could only remember him sitting on the high throne, with his head tilted to listen to him trading his rare ability for status, and he glanced at him faintly when he did so.

Maybe there was some pity, maybe there was ridicule, he couldn't remember clearly.

It turned out that he had been seeking death since he became the Son of God and performed the first purification ceremony. It was ridiculous that at that time, he thought he was fighting for a way to survive.

But he doesn't regret it. If he had the chance to do it again, he would still go down this dead end. Even if he knew the ending at that time, he would still go down this dead end.

Knock knock knock…

Zelsa never knocked on the door, but today he did, walked in, knelt in front of him, and put his arm around his waist.

"You can't overuse your strength anymore. I just want you to take it easy. I have no other intentions."

"I can feel that your power is concentrated in your heart. If you waste it for a long time, you will be in poor health. You see, you have been sick recently. I won't delay your appearance..."

Ye Yanze wanted to laugh but couldn't force a smile. He was thinking, if he didn't have to die and just needed to sacrifice himself, what would he do?

This question is meaningless. He has no choice anymore. He is dead.

"Zelsa." Ye Yanze called him calmly and heard his response immediately afterwards.

"Um."

Ye Yanze didn't know what to say, he should cry loudly and curse fate, but at this moment he was wondering how long it would take Zelsa to forget him and what he should do to make him not sad.

"Zelsa."

"Um."

Ye Yanze grabbed his clothes, lowered his eyelashes, and called him again.

"Zelsa."

This time it took a long time before he responded.

"Um."

"I will never lie to you again."