Chapter 66: Birthday: Rheingold [VIP]
On the third day after returning to Gaola, Xiao Yun was in the meeting room with John Deere and others discussing how to orderly breed rice, promote rice cultivation, create new agricultural tools, and teach farmers to cultivate crops with more scientific methods.
The attendant knocked on the door and entered: "Sir, the envoy of the Ya tribe requests to see you."
"Ya tribe?"
Xiao Yun looked up.
The information about the Ya people obtained from various channels flowed through his mind.
(Although the Ya tribe is one of the four major barbarian tribes in the jungle, they are distinguished from other tribes by their white skin, pointed ears, tall and thin physique, beautiful features, vegetarian diet, and an average lifespan of 200 years. They have a high opinion of themselves and believe that their ancestors were elves who guarded the kingdom of God and were exiled to the jungle because of the mistakes of their human ancestors.)
The Ya have always looked down on the other three tribes living in the dense forest, and even more so on the Aim who live along the Kas River. They believe that all humanoid creatures other than the Ya are lowly and filthy, unworthy of being mentioned in the same breath as themselves...
(The Ya people are not only stubborn and arrogant, but also very xenophobic...)
"Please ask them to wait in the lobby."
"Yes, sir."
The attendant left the study.
Xiao Yun looked at John Deere and said, "Teacher, your concerns are correct."
"Young Master hasn't even officially met with the Ya Clan envoy yet, how come..."
"intuition."
Xiao Yun pointed to his head and said, "When I heard the news of the Ya tribe's visit, I felt a strong sense of unease in my mind."
"The bloodline of the Holy Family is more susceptible to perceiving higher dimensions and coming into contact with higher-dimensional life forms than ordinary people. They can indeed sense the vague future without the need for divination."
John Deere muttered to himself.
Xiao Yun and his attendants went to the hall.
…
[Your Excellency, Grand Marquis of Gola, hello, I am Lanatia, the daughter of the current chief of the Ya tribe.]
In the spacious hall, the Ya tribe envoy Lanatia led two male subordinates to bow to Xiao Yun in salute.
She has charming long light golden hair, noble and indifferent eyebrows, and her pointed ears are decorated with gold and silver ornaments. She looks about thirty years old, tall and slender, with a slim figure, and wears a silver long dress embroidered with gold thread.
——Considering that the Ya people are a long-lived group with an average age of over two hundred, Xiao Yun suspected that Lanatia's actual age was over a hundred, and the two followers behind her would not be less than fifty years old.
(I had to act mature and not be treated like a child by them.)
Xiao Yun nodded to accept the greetings from the Ya tribe envoy and asked him to sit down.
"It's an honor for me to have the future patriarch visit me personally."
[It’s our honor too.]
Lanatia looked up and politely thanked the Grand Marquis Gaura. After seeing Xiao Yun's appearance, there was obvious surprise in her eyes.
(The Marquis of Gaura possesses a refined appearance comparable to our Ya people. No wonder those barbaric creatures of the Sioux and the Semites firmly believe that this Aim is the legendary "Son of God" who can lead them back to the kingdom of God.)
My mother sent me to visit the Grand Marquis of Gaura at Castle Black for three main reasons:
"Please go ahead."
[First, we express our respect to the Grand Marquis of Gola. Although the Milinya are not subjects of the Sun Empire, since this land has become part of the Sun Empire, as the original inhabitants of Gola, we should pay our respects to you, Lord, and sign a non-interference agreement with you.]
"I don't understand what you're talking about."
Xiao Yun was surprised.
Lanatia smiled, her pale blue eyes gleaming with arrogance.
[The Ya people have lived in the dense forest for generations and are the true masters of the dense forest.]
"Go on—"
"I know that the Grand Marquis of Gaura comes from a sacred family with a five-thousand-year heritage, and that you possess the noble blue blood that the Aim of the outside world, the Sioux of the forests, and the Shem, all believe to be of divine origin. But before us, whose history stretches back six thousand years and whose ancestors are the mythical elves, you are but a young man who knows nothing. All your pride is worthless!"
"oh?"
Xiao Yun sneered: "Anything else?"
[……besides? ]
"You said you came to see me on behalf of the Ya tribe. You have three main reasons. I've already mentioned the first one. What are the remaining two?"
[……]
Lanatia was stunned.
[You, do you know that I just...]
"I heard it very clearly."
Xiao Yun said with a smile.
[Then why don’t you get angry right away?]
"Why should I be angry?"
Xiao Yun asked in reply, "The Ya Clan's six thousand years of history is indeed longer than that of the Holy Family. With an average age of over two hundred years, you can certainly consider me, having only lived for twenty-one years, to be an insignificant young man."
[……]
Lanatia, who inexplicably felt that she was being violently manipulated by Xiao Yun, took a deep breath and tried to force a smile on her fair face.
[As expected of His Highness the Grand Duke's half-brother! Compared to your brother, His Excellency the Grand Marquis may appear a bit more approachable, but your words are sharp and pointed, just as sharp as your brother's!]
"road?"
[Well……]
A complex expression of humiliation, fear and anger suddenly appeared on Lanatia's face.
[…Your brother is a person who has left a deep impression on everyone in the Ya tribe, even though I have never met him formally.]
, it feels like a toothache.
"Okay, let's get back to the point. What are the remaining two things?"
[You are a noble Aim. You brought our fellow Kukuchiyas who were abducted back to Gaola. To express our gratitude to you, the Ya tribe has prepared a gift——]
Lanatia stood up and opened it in public.
Box
The dagger was only forearm-long and silver-white in color. Both the hilt and scabbard were decorated with exquisite vine reliefs, and the vines were inlaid with green leaves carefully polished from green gems.
[Please accept the gift from the Ya tribe.]
“It really is a beautiful gift.”
Xiao Yun took the dagger and slowly pulled it out. He found that the blade of the dagger was thin and transparent, emitting a faint golden light. It was obviously made of some rare and precious metal.
This dagger is called the Golden Blade. It's made by fusing a special metal from another dimension called "Rhinegold" with the gold of this world. It can't harm creatures in this dimension, but it can injure creatures from other dimensions...
("Rhinegold"? Ring of the Nibelung? Lord of the Rings? The Lord of the Rings?!)
Xiao Yun was shocked.
“So precious…”
[Yes, I also want to know why we must hand over such a precious dagger to you.]
Lanatia looked at Xiao Yun enviously.
"Since it is a precious item of the Ya tribe—"
Xiao Yun prepared to return the dagger to Lanatia.
[No! Don’t give it back!]
Lanatia screamed in terror.
[The "Golden Blade," though precious, does not belong to the Ya. It is a forged artifact of the gods, entrusted to the Ya for temporary safekeeping. Now, a divine oracle has arrived, commanding us to deliver the "Golden Blade" to you. If the Ya dare disobey the oracle and take the "Golden Blade" for themselves, a dark curse will descend, bringing terrible destruction upon the Ya!]
Xiao Yun was silent, and a hint of emotion flashed across his ocean-blue eyes.
(So they were worried about the gods bringing disaster, so they had to give me such a precious item...)
(As expected of the Ya people, who claim to be descendants of elves and are arrogant and xenophobic.)
(I'll contact my brother tonight. I have a feeling that the gods ordering the Ya tribe to give me the "Golden Blade" is not that simple...)
"...Since it's God's command, I can only reluctantly accept it. But I have a question that I hope you can answer directly."
[What's the problem?]
"Who is the deity you worship? Is it the same deity worshipped by the Sioux and Semites? What is its relationship to the twin gods worshipped by the Solar Empire?"
[…I’m sorry, my mother and I are just ordinary Ya people who follow the will of the gods. We are not qualified to answer your questions.]
"In that case—"
Xiao Yun put the mysterious transparent sword blade that was shining with golden light back into the scabbard and handed it to the servant beside him.
At this moment, golden sunlight shone through the window onto Xiao Yun. The dagger that had returned to its sheath seemed to be endowed with self-awareness and suddenly popped out of the sheath. It turned into a golden light and rushed into Xiao Yun's right arm, disappearing without a trace in an instant.
“This, this…”
Xiao Yun was shocked.
Lanatia also stood there in a daze because of the unexpected change, muttering to herself.
"This is incredible! This is astonishing! This kind of thing... I've never heard of anything so bizarre... 'Golden Blade', 'Rhinegold'... What on earth are these things...?"
(LA, what's going on?)
Xiao Yun asked the system after realizing that he could not obtain any useful information from Lanatia.
[Because the host's body is one of the few bodies in the current world that can accommodate matter from another dimension.]
(Can my body contain matter from another dimension?)
Xiao Yun exclaimed.
(Yaris said that there was something in his body that was indescribably terrifying... That thing constantly attracted the gods into his body... He couldn't stop, and neither could the gods... Could it be that something similar existed in my body?)
[Host, rest assured, your body does not possess the same attributes as the individual identified as Yaris Aldo Santis.]
(Then… wait! My brother’s body… what special properties does his body have?)
[Sorry, this question is blocked.]
(Prohibited question...)
Xiao Yun couldn't help but fall into deep thought.
[…The third matter concerns the fifteen Ya people that the Grand Marquis brought back from Kukuchia—]
Lanatia came back to her senses and spoke to Xiao Yun in a strange tone.
[Mother and the elders agreed that they should stay and live in Aim's world.]
"What!"
Xiao Yun was angry.
"Why do you treat them like this! Aren't they your people?"
[because……]
"During the days and nights they were trafficked to Kukuchia, they encouraged themselves to live on by saying they would one day return home. They missed you so much, but you—why are you so cruel to your own people!"
[They have been contaminated by Aim's world! They are no longer worthy of being our people.]
Lanatia said coldly.
[Besides, God does not object to our decisions.]
Lanatia added.
"Our gods don't object. As the Em of the outside world, what right do you have, Grand Marquis, to accuse us? To criticize us?"
"...Good boy!"
Xiao Yun didn't want to waste time with this group of stubborn guys: "Since you have made a decision, I won't force it, but there is one thing——"
[What's going on?]
"I hope you can go to Merlin Village in person and tell them the news."
Meilin Village is the name Xiao Yun gave to the temporary resettlement area.
He originally wanted to name the resettlement area the Milin Village, but John Deere, Habier, Suna and others strongly opposed it. So he named the village Merlin Village after the great magician Merlin in his memory.
[Meilin Village?]
A strange light flashed in Lanatia's eyes again, as if she was afraid of the name.
[I'm sorry, but to maintain their purity, the Ya people never stay overnight in Aim's house, nor do they travel on moonless nights.]
"What's the meaning?"
[We must return to the jungle now.]
Lanatia stood up and walked out of the hall with two subordinates without waiting for Xiao Yun's reply.
"Master, do we need to stop them?"
Richard asked Xiao Yun.
Xiao Yun shook his head: "Let them go."
"But……"
"Their attitude is indeed irritatingly arrogant, but they will never realize what they are losing by their pride and ignorance at this moment."
Xiao Yun said calmly.
As the Lord of Gora, he was obliged to appear calm and composed in front of his subordinates.
"That's right, Master Lucien!"
Richard was encouraged by Xiao Yun's words and answered loudly.
…
…
"——Sorry, I have too many trivial matters to deal with today. I kept you waiting for so long."
Xiao Yun rubbed his swollen temples and sat in front of the crystal mirror with a little guilt.
On the other side of the crystal mirror, Yaris looked at his brother with a smile, his eyes falling on his right arm.
"Is it the 'Golden Blade'?"
"Brother, how did you know..."
Xiao Yun was shocked.
"The light of the 'Golden Blade' is so bright, how could I not see it?"
Yaris smiled slightly. "And—it was me who pretended to be a god and sent down the 'oracle' to make the Ya people, a bunch of foolish and arrogant people, hand over the 'Golden Blade' to you."
"ah?"
Xiao Yun felt unbelievable.
"Wait! What did you just say, brother? You, you pretended to be the god of the Ya tribe... and sent down an oracle... Then, then..."
"You don't seem to believe me, but I can't blame you."
Yaris smiled, having clearly anticipated his brother's reaction. "Until now, although you share the same special bloodline of the Holy Family as I do, you have mostly lived an ordinary life completely unrelated to the higher-dimensional world."
"Yes……"
Xiao Yun looked at Yaris intently.
His eyes, ears, intuition and even his most secret subconscious mind were all mobilized, and he paid meticulous attention to Yaris.
Yaris also noticed his brother's excessive attention and continued with a smile.
"But whether you like it or not, from the moment you were resurrected, you have established a special connection with the world. You have become an important existence that will have a huge impact on the world and is related to the fate of the planet."
"As the 'Dark Night Mentor' said, there exists within your body something beyond common sense, originating from a higher dimension. I don't know if you can manipulate it as freely as you would your own limbs, nor do I know what its true nature is. The only thing I am certain of is that it will not harm you. It steadily radiates within your body an energy as blazing, bright, and warm as the sun..."
"Brother wants—"
"No, I don't want anything from your body."
Yaris said gently but firmly, "The 'Dark Night Mentor' and his companions may be very interested in what's inside you, but I'm not. Rather than the fleeting, false satisfaction I'd get from possessing what's inside you, I long for your sincere and lasting love. Only your love can bring me true happiness."
"I don't mind..."
"I do."
Yaris smiled, a smile shrouded in sadness. "I need you. I can't lose you."
"so……"
Yaris muttered to himself, "When I learned that the Ya people possessed a sacred object called the 'Golden Blade,' and that the 'Golden Blade' was forged by their god using a mysterious substance from another dimension called 'Rhinegold,' I instinctively thought that the 'Golden Blade' might have a special connection with you and the sun-like object within you."
"And then you..."
"Um."
Yaris said fondly, "So I deliberately used my perception to shroud the Ya Tribe's sacred golden tree, pretending that the gods had 'descended', and in the name of divine oracle, I demanded that they deliver the 'Golden Blade' to you."
"Will this harm your body? You look very tired."
"...I'm glad that your first reaction after you found out about this was to worry about me getting hurt."
Yaris gently stroked his forehead with his slender fingers. "Doing this will indeed make the body tired and weak, but seeing the 'Golden Blade' merge into your body as I expected, becoming a power that belongs only to you, the spiritual happiness has replaced the physical fatigue."
"elder brother……"
Xiao Yun looked at Yaris helplessly.
"What's up?"
"I'm no longer a child who needs your constant care."
"I know."
"No, you don't!"
Xiao Yun said sternly, "You have no idea how terrible the danger your actions could bring you. If He suddenly attacks you while you're pretending to be a Ya tribe deity, you will be completely defeated and taken away by Him like a baby in a cradle."
"It doesn't matter."
Yaris gave a strange smile: "The gods have not only imposed special restrictions on my body."
"That's not possible..."
"Until I complete the special mission given to me by the gods, I will not be in any danger."
"Okay, I'll believe you for now..."
Xiao Yun felt helpless.
A satisfied smile appeared on Yaris’s fair face: “Lucien, do you love me?”
"Of course, I swore in front of you that no matter what happens in the future, my love for you will not change."
"Whatever happens?"
"Yes, no matter what happens, I am your brother. I came into this world to protect you. Protecting you is my mission."
"Yes...you are my brother..."
Yaris closed his eyes gently: "Even if I am crazy, will you still love me?"
"I said, no matter what happens, I will love you, even if you go crazy, I will be by your side."
"When I was born, I was one of the most unfortunate people in the world, but - I met you, and you made me the happiest person in the world..."
Yaris's cheeks flushed with joy.
"I would be even happier if you could immerse yourself in a happy mood every day, not care about the bloody conspiracies happening in dark corners that have nothing to do with us, and stay in Maga and wait for me to pick you up."
Xiao Yun deliberately put on a stern face.
"Okay, son. Starting tomorrow, I will no longer care about things happening in corners that have nothing to do with us. I will watch funny theatrical performances every day, admire the beautiful scenery of Lake Lilia, and spend my days and nights happily."
“This is how you’re supposed to live.”
"There's something I almost forgot to tell you—"
"What's up?"
"It was me who made the Ya tribe give you the Golden Blade and allowed them to expel the people you rescued."
"Why?"
"The Ya are an extremely conceited and arrogant people. Only when they receive an answer from the gods that is in their own interests will they believe that another oracle that is detrimental to their own interests is also correct."
"……I see."
Xiao Yun suddenly understood.
"Okay, I'm going to rest now. Can you give me a goodnight kiss?"
"If I were right next to you, I would not only kiss your forehead, but I would also hold you and sing you a lullaby."
Xiao Yun said this half jokingly and half seriously.
"Do you treat me like a baby in a cradle?"
"In my eyes, you are more fragile than a baby in a cradle. If bad people want to kidnap you, you can't even struggle or shout for help."
Xiao Yun said this affectionately, walked to the crystal mirror, and kissed Yaris's forehead through the cold mirror.
"Good night, have a sweet dream—"
"the same as you."
Then the call ended and the crystal mirror returned to darkness.
…
…
"——Good morning."
Following a clear and pleasant voice, the people of the various tribes in the dense forest who were temporarily settled by John Deere in Merlin Village, less than a kilometer away from the Black Castle, looked up and saw the handsome and enthusiastic face of Marquis Gora, who looked like a fairy tale prince.
[Oh, oh... 'Son of the Holy One'... you, you...]
"I have something very important to announce to you all."
Xiao Yun raised his hand, signaling everyone to gather in the square immediately to listen to him.
…
What is the "Son of God" going to announce? Officially declaring that we have been abandoned by the jungle? Although it is expected, but...
(I can’t even accept myself, how can they, how can they accept me now?)
(Maybe we shouldn't have come back at all, we should have stayed in Kukuchia... although... but at least...)
(I heard that Lady Lanatia went to Castle Black to visit the "Son of the Saint" yesterday...)
(……)
In the small square in the center of the village, people from various tribes in the dense forest gathered here and were thinking anxiously.
In silence, Xiao Yun walked up to the platform without saying a word and slowly raised his arms.
The sunlight shone all over his body like gold, making his already handsome face like a fairy tale prince shine even more brightly. But what attracted everyone more than his handsome and fair face was his right arm!
Oh my god—
A cry almost like a scream was heard, and everyone's attention was drawn to the right arm that radiated a brilliant golden light like the sun itself.
[That is——]
[That light! Golden light!]
[That is, that is…]
"As you can see, the Ya tribe obeyed the will of the gods and handed the sacred object 'Golden Blade' to me."
Xiao Yun announced calmly.
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