"kindness...?"
Ophelia glanced at the palm-sized fairy knight sitting on the pillar, wearing golden armor. Her expression was stunned, and a moment of trance flashed in her eyes.
This inexplicable sense of familiarity left her puzzled.
However, in this situation, there was no room for daze. Her Royal Highness the Seventh Princess quickly adjusted her mentality, raised her head, and looked at the light shining down from above her head.
This nearly materialized light wasn't sunlight, but rather crystals of mana flowing from the fairy net. However, these crystals were extremely thin and weightless, emitting a faint glow. Therefore, when they fell, they resembled projected sunlight.
Xu Xianxian was completely focused on her recent discovery and had no time to pay attention to these magic web crystals. However, Gray and Olim beside her, the male fairy knight sitting opposite her, and many nobles surrounding her all showed a hint of envy in their eyes.
This is the most fundamental crystal of mana, dropped directly from the magic web. It can enhance one's strength without any side effects. Only during the coming-of-age ceremony of the royal family can this substance appear. This is a baptism exclusive to the royal family.
However, due to the emperor sitting high on the throne, no demon dared to show too much greed.
"My dear sister, the royal family only gets one chance to be baptized by the Demonic Web in their lifetime. You must seize this opportunity." Sylvia sat on the side seat, looking at her sister and whispering to herself, "How high you can advance to depends entirely on your talent and ability."
The baptism of the magic net can at least allow the royal family to be promoted to the ninth ring, and it is possible to reach the tenth or eleventh ring.
She then glanced at her brothers and sisters beside her. Except for her second brother who was looking forward to it like her, the other brothers and sisters were looking at her with indifference.
There were even a few who showed undisguised hostility.
There are not many positions for princes and princesses, but they are vaguely divided into several camps.
Sylvia sighed secretly. There was nothing she could do about it.
Although their bloodline comes from the same father, their mothers are different, and this origin determines everything.
For example, her second brother Scott, her seventh sister Ophelia, and herself were all born to the Empress of the Empire.
But in addition to her mother, the emperor had three other concubines, each of whom gave birth to different children. This also led to them, who had the same father but different mothers, often fighting openly and secretly.
Maybe it was for glory, maybe it was for power, maybe it was for resources, maybe it was for strength, maybe it was for something else. In any case, in this situation, the so-called family affection was not worth mentioning at all.
"Ophelia is too innocent. Before she came of age, it was fine. Everyone had to consider her father. But after she came of age, she would have her own territory, and she might face opposition from within the royal family."
Sylvia knew that when her seventh sister came of age, she might encounter difficulties far beyond her imagination. The reason for these things was because Ophelia had the first inheritance right.
"Even my second brother can't say for sure when it comes to the succession to the throne..." Sylvia glanced at her second brother and then looked away. "It's a good thing I gave up my right to the throne long ago, otherwise I would be like these goblins, caught up in the intrigue every day."
The emperor of the Fairy Empire is extremely powerful and has a lifespan far exceeding that of ordinary fairies. If he gave up his position only until his death, the princes and princesses below him would basically have died of old age.
But in fact, since the birth of the empire, the Fairy Mother has stipulated the ruling cycle of the emperor's authority.
The emperor's reign usually lasted from eight hundred to one thousand years. After that, he would step down and spend the remaining years of his life traveling the world, continuing his magical training, or traveling to the Holy Mountain where the Fairy Mother resided.
Sylvia's father has been in office for more than five hundred years. In a few hundred years, the next emperor will appear among her brothers and sisters.
So in this case, the higher the order of succession, the more likely one is to be hostile to other royal families.
"My sister always looks forward to receiving the Fairy Mother's gift, but from my perspective, I don't want her to receive a higher gift because it would be too conspicuous and would inevitably lead to hostility from other members."
Sylvia looked at her seventh sister bathed in the glory of magic power with a worried expression.
The history of the imperial royal family is full of dark colors such as conspiracy, assassination, trickery, betrayal, and blood. If a good-natured person like the seventh sister is too dazzling, she may easily encounter unexpected dangers.
However, as time passed, the fourth princess finally let go of her worries. There were two more halos under her sister's feet, which was about nine rings. This was the most standard performance.
And there was not even a trace of the Fairy Mother's gift.
This kind of performance made the hostility of the brothers and sisters around him fade away, and they even looked relieved.
Ophelia felt the magic power in her body boiling, but she was not satisfied. Not only did she not feel any joy, but her eyes were completely lost.
The baptism of the magic network is time-limited. The ceiling above the hall slowly closed, and the blue magic veins flowing above it gradually faded and disappeared, and the magic crystals above it no longer fell down.
The baptism of adulthood is coming to an end.
'It didn't go as I wished.'
Ophelia slowly closed her eyes, not wanting others to see the pain and helplessness in her eyes.
With her arrogance, being promoted to the ninth ring was not what she wanted at all.
But just when all the goblins thought it was over, the goblin magic web that had faded above their heads condensed into substance again, and then an indescribable white arm directly penetrated the barrier between reality and the magic web.
"It's the Great Fairy Mother...!"
"Oh... the great fairy mother actually appeared..."
"Why did the great Fairy Mother materialize?"
Seeing this arm appear out of thin air, all the noble fairies present were in an uproar. Their blood and magic power boiled up in an instant. Even the emperor and empress who had been watching indifferently stood up with solemn expressions.
In the past tens of thousands of years, even if the great Fairy Mother bestowed a gift, it was nothing more than the condensation of illusory magic power, and no physical body would appear at all.
But now... the opponent's arm actually passed through the barrier between the magic net and reality, and threw a translucent crystal leaf onto Ophelia's head.
On this crystal leaf, a pattern of a white Ouroboros appeared.
Xu Xianxian was very close and saw the white snake pattern on the crystal leaves and the cute face under the armor, which looked like spilled paint and became colorful.
She was originally skeptical, but now after seeing the white snake tree leaves, she no longer had any doubts. She was 120% sure that this Seventh Princess was Zhen'er's previous life.
"Ahhh... This princess is indeed Zhen'er's past life, right?!"
"If that's the case... then what exactly happened in these past few hundred years?"
Countless doubts and mysteries instantly filled Loli Xu's little head, giving her a huge headache.
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