As if carrying the aura of a distant past, a young girl with blonde hair and silver eyes stood at the doorway. Although it wasn't raining, she still held an exquisite black parasol, the edge of which was decorated with lace patterns and colorful crystal pendants. Her beautiful face, like that of an eternally unchanging 17-year-old girl, was smiling as she stood quietly at the steps.
Loran Hill opened the door and looked at the witch senior in front of him with a little surprise on his face. Then the phantom witch brushed past him like the night wind and walked into the hall.
When Loran Hill closed the door and turned around, she was already sitting on the sofa next to the coffee table. The parasol in her hand had disappeared, and there were teapots and teacups on the table.
"Long time no see, little Loran. You slept for a long time before." Titus looked at the silver-haired girl who slowly walked to the sofa opposite.
"Well, Sister Titus, it has been seven years without me noticing." Loran Hill also sat down.
"No, it's been eight years now." Tidaisi blinked, and there seemed to be star sand flowing in her silver pupils.
"But what surprised me even more was that you were able to establish a country without any guidance, Crancia."
"This... this is probably just a coincidence." Loran Hill said a little embarrassedly. In fact, she didn't think so much at the time, she just followed her heart.
"This is not a coincidence, but an inevitable thing. It's just that you acted too early, which surprised me." Tidaisi said slowly.
"Little Luolan, do you know the famous human countries in history?"
"I know a few, like the original Red Empire, the Mercury Dynasty, the Plantagenet Dynasty, the Land of Oz, and so on."
"Yes, but what few people know is that in the early days of these countries' establishment, we witches were behind the scenes promoting or protecting them."
"Oh, is that so?" Loran Hill opened his eyes wide.
"Yes." Titus paused for a moment, as if recalling a lot of things, and her tone was a little vague.
"The short life span makes humans pursue survival. Staying alive and reproducing offspring are the lifelong goals of most people."
"But for extraordinary people, survival and reproduction are no longer a problem. They will begin to pursue various desires: money, power, the opposite sex, fame, and so on."
"When he becomes strong enough, surpassing billions of his kind, fulfilling these desires will become easy. However, no matter how much you love to eat or do something, after a thousand or even a billion times, you will get tired of it."
"Fortunately, even powerful transcendents find it difficult to resist the erosion of time. As they slowly age and approach death, even if they pursue their desires throughout their lives, they will never reach the end of their desires."
"But we witches are different. Our innate powers grant us a long lifespan. However, the length of time and life experiences will eventually make you grow weary of many things in this world. Whether it's the colorful emotions between humans or those vibrant desires, they will slowly fade in your life."
"Finally, life seems to have turned into a monotonous gray, and the emptiness of boredom and boredom will slowly spread in your heart, forcing you to think about what else is worth pursuing."
Having said that, Titus slowly stopped and looked at the newborn in front of her. Her clear and pure eyes made her envious. How wonderful it would be if it could always be like this.
"Inner emptiness and the meaninglessness of life will torture a person, making his or her personality become weird and curious, gradually deviating from ordinary people, and finally embarking on the path of madness and self-destruction." Titus whispered as he recounted the sad endings of many witches.
"So there's no solution?"
"There are methods. Some witches will destroy their memories, severing everything from the past, and then start anew, reborn like a phoenix. For example, the Scarlet Burning Witch - Keti."
"Some witches believe that memory represents themselves and their entire lives. The people and events in their lives are the most precious treasures in the world. They are unwilling to give up. They will calmly welcome death and enter a world of rest like countless mortals."
"Some witches will set greater ambitions and dreams, and pursue them throughout their lives, until their ideals burn themselves to death."
"For her fellow humans, the Blood Moon Witch, Julis, transformed into a demon and brought the Demonic Order to humanity. After the fall of the True Crimson Empire, she was burned to death on the Burning Sun Altar by the priests of the Crazy Fang Empire."
"Hades, the witch of the underworld who created the Order of the Dead and led the rise of the Mercury Dynasty, was imprisoned on the Island of Eternal Darkness after the collapse of the Mercury Dynasty, and was never allowed to leave."
"The pioneer and master of the magic sequence, the idol of countless wizards, the Space-Time Witch Dorothy, was nailed to the city gate tower when the Verdant Empire defeated the Kingdom of Oz."
"Even today, some witches still walk this path, such as Suqin, the witch of the Creation Dragon Vein, who protected and established the Plantagenet Dynasty. Siye, the witch of the Sealed Book, who taught her students and established the Green and West Wind."
"The original intentions or philosophies behind the founding of these countries are all extensions of their own ideals, and their own and their national destinies are intertwined, rising and falling together."
Seeing that Loran Hill gradually fell into deep thought, Tidaisi comforted him.
"But you don't have to worry too much. Those witches reached that point because, in their hearts, apart from their ideals, they gradually lost everything else. That's why the destruction of their country was such a huge blow to them, and why they were so desperate."
"But for you, life has just begun, and there are many possibilities in the future. Although it hurts to fall once, I believe you can stand up again."
Titus comforted Loran Hill, but she regretted not being able to stop herself and bring up so many heavy topics. These were things only witches who had lived for over a thousand years would think about. A young witch who was hundreds of years old and hadn't yet enjoyed her life enough would not care about such things.
"No, don't worry about me. Thank you, Sister Tidaisi, for your warning."
Loran Hill smiled, reassuring the senior. Her past and present lives combined had only been for a maximum of twenty years, so she couldn't experience these things personally. However, based on her past knowledge and thinking, she realized that what Tidaisi said was true.
After solving the problems of food, clothing, and security, people will spend their whole lives pursuing the meaning of life, either explicitly or implicitly, sometimes consciously and sometimes unconsciously.
Compared with her ordinariness and powerlessness in her previous life, she has more time and leisure in this life to explore and think about this problem.
Then let's set a small goal for ourselves first, which is to see this beautiful and wonderful world, see this magnificent world where dragons soar above the sky, elves recite ancient poems in the forest, sails crisscross the seven seas, the brilliance of magic is enough to illuminate the entire night sky, knights' lances are spread all over the mountains, and countless flags cover the sky.
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