Mond (5)

She looked back at her past life which was like a pile of rotten mud.

Duke Lahon picked her up for ulterior motives.

He is a kind and great lord, and also a father who has lost his wife.

He will do anything for his children.

Little Daisy knew from a young age that her blood was special.

When she was very young, she saw her father cutting her mother's wrists, leaving scars.

Because she had seen it so many times, Daisy stopped crying.

Then it was her turn.

The long and thick syringe inserted into the blood vessel is more painful than imagined.

But after a long time, I didn't feel anything anymore, only the trace of the pinhole was extremely clear.

At that time, even pain was a real luxury.

My mother died unexpectedly, it was suicide.

She actually had little affection for her mother, just as she did for herself.

She was later sold to the Duke of Lahon, who must have offered her father a price he couldn't refuse, as it would have been difficult for him to let go of a cash cow.

Duke Lahon was seriously injured, but he did not use her blood to heal himself at first.

Instead, let her read books, learn knowledge, and teach her etiquette.

Later, she found out.

She was a punching bag and blood bag for his three children.

The children had the same disease as their biological mother.

Her blood could prolong their lives and even heal them.

Although they both used a syringe to draw blood, Daisy did not dislike Duke Lahon because he treated her well in everything else.

Duke Lahon died early because his illness was so serious that it was incurable and Daisy's blood was useless.

Daisy hated the three children.

The three children also disliked her.

But Daisy protected and raised them.

Everything she had learned from Duke Lahon had enabled her to do this. It had taken a long, long time.

This is a painful and torturous process.

When she finally handed power back to her eldest son.

She is dead.

***

"I actually don't remember how I died." Mrs. Dan Shu actually had a smile on her face.

This is not a happy story...

Neither of them knew how to speak, so they chose to remain silent and listen.

"When I woke up, I found that I was 17 years old, which is a very awkward age. I couldn't escape from this place early, and I had to face this pile of rotten stalls again. Can you imagine how upset I was?"

Mrs. Danshu's lips curled up, but her eyes did not smile.

"But now, I'm glad that I chose to stay here."

“With experience, it’s easier to deal with it — it’s not. But I figured out a lot of things, I spent more time with the kids, and cleared up some misunderstandings.”

Hearing her brief summary, Inger felt that it was definitely a long and difficult process.

"I lost my memory of what happened before and after my death, but when I touched the tree again, it told me a lot of things."

"When I died, Leon chopped down the Life and Death Tree and burned it with my body. The Life and Death Tree gave me a chance to be resurrected. The spirit of the Life and Death Tree is now tied to me. I am the only one in this life who can communicate with the Life and Death Tree."

"It says that not everyone can get this chance of resurrection, only people with special bloodline, and the most obvious feature of this bloodline is..." Madam Danshu pointed to her eyes.

Inger almost instantly thought of Karena's last name, Fininola, the bloodline of the phoenix.

But Karena probably doesn't know the special properties of her blood.

Inger looked at his hands, [Does my blood have this function? No, if my blood could detoxify, I wouldn't be poisoned.]

"I don't actually know what it means. Even if I ask the tree of life and death, it doesn't know. It only knows a special feeling. I know my mother has red eyes like me, but her color is lighter. However, my mother died very early. I guess there may be something strange about her ancestors."

"I died in 1887, when I was 33 years old. The Tree of Life and Death said that I should have been resurrected in 1920, 33 years after my death, with a new body and my original memories. This is the nature of the Tree of Life and Death."

Inger's mind quickly retrieved the time information, [The protagonist died in 1910, and ten years later, 1920, was exactly the time period when the last storyboard of the comic ended...]

"The Tree of Life and Death told me that the Goddess of Law activated her power in 1920 and turned the world back thirty years. Well, that is 1890."

Alex and Inger stood up together.

Madam Danshu looked at the shocked expressions of the two and laughed, "It seems you believe it."

"The Tree of Life and Death was right. Both of you are people who have been resurrected from the dead."

Inger took a deep breath and pulled Alex to sit down.

Alex couldn't help but ask, "Does the Tree of Life and Death know about the existence of the goddess? And can it also understand the power of the goddess?"

"According to what it told me, well, it is a child who likes to chat very much. It has never talked to anyone since its spiritual birth, so it is quite talkative."

"Before the arrival of the human era, the goddess created many magical creatures, some of which you can still see now. It is now called the Ancient Era. It was an insignificant seed planted by the goddess of law at that time. It was buried underground for a long time and germinated quickly. It soon became spiritual, but it could not communicate with any intelligent creatures. Its original characteristic was that it was not affected by time. Apart from that, it was just an ordinary tree, because it could not move or communicate with any spiritual creatures. It could not affect any existence and did not interfere with the law of cause and effect in this world... Well, it's a bit difficult to understand. I don't know what this law of cause and effect means. Is it a bit like the fate of the world? It is much more knowledgeable than me."

Of the three, only Inger understood the meaning of the word.

He was overwhelmed by the explosion of information.

"Because it cannot interfere with the law of cause and effect of the world, it is not affected every time the goddess goes back in time. It remembers everything, including the time that no longer exists. It said that the Book of the World will not be reversed by time, and the past and present are faithfully recorded on every page... I didn't understand these sentences, I just repeated them." Mrs. Dan Shu shook her head helplessly.

Inger felt his heart pounding and his throat dry. He asked, "What else?"

"The goddess probably forgot that she had planted such a thing. Before me, there was no one connected to it, so no one knew about it. It said that the goddess had gone back in time many times before, and it didn't know why the goddess wanted to go back in time this time, but the timing this time was too coincidental. My existence is purely an accident caused by countless coincidences."

"Has the goddess traveled back in time many times?!"

"According to it, the goddess has used this power the most times since the beginning of the human era. It doesn't remember how many times, but it is certain that the goddess cannot use this power infinitely."

"For a long time, it could sense that the goddess was wandering around in the world, directly interfering with the changes in the world with different incarnations, but at that time it was only very small. Oh, by the way, until a period of time, some abnormal beings entered this world and greatly distorted time, space and the law of causality. From that time on, the goddess's overall interference in the world became more frequent."

Inger and Alex looked at each other. There was still confusion and bewilderment in Alex's eyes. Inger was sweating profusely and thinking, could it be me?

But he quickly rejected it.

He has only been in this world for such a short time, it's impossible.

The only thing that comes to mind is the demon clan.

The comics don't explain where these demons came from, especially the birth of the demon mother tree, so it seems that the idea that they came from an alien world in outer space is the correct answer.

[Could it be possible that the theme of this comic has changed directly from heroic legend to magical suspense? ]

"After all, the Tree of Life and Death is not a goddess, so I don't know their intentions, but it said that it hasn't sensed the presence of the goddess for some time, since the last time it went back in time."

Alex asked anxiously, "Has the goddess's presence disappeared?"

"No, it said that if the goddess disappeared, the magic of this world would disappear, but that didn't happen. The goddess's favor is still there. Maybe the goddess deliberately didn't let other beings perceive them..." Dan Shu paused, "Do you remember the Goddess Church? The popes of all generations could hear the oracle directly, but in recent decades, the gods no longer send down decrees. I think there must be a connection between the two."

Only at this moment did Inger truly feel that God really existed in this world.

This was a huge shock to him as a staunch atheist.

"Why does the Life and Death Tree have the ability to resurrect the dead?" Alex asked curiously.

Dan Shu rolled up her sleeves and smiled, "This is also a coincidence. In the mythological era, various powerful magical creatures collided and fought, causing unrest in the world. Their personalities were too strong, so they could not tolerate other equally powerful creatures. One day, when a flying dragon was fighting an undead bird, the dragon flame and the immortal fire collided. The two impacts happened to fall on its body at the same time. The immortal fire gave half of it the characteristics of immortality, and the dragon flame completely destroyed the other half, thus creating the current life and death tree."

Inger and Alex both gasped in disbelief.

"You see, it's hard for you to believe. If I tell anyone about this, I might be put into a mental hospital." Dan Shu joked to ease the atmosphere.

【19th century mental hospital...】

Indeed, had it not been for the reality of their own situation, they would not have believed a word of it.

Madam Danshu thought for a while, confirmed that she had not missed anything, and then said, "I was supposed to die four years ago. I don't know what happened after that. How are you doing?"

Alex was silent for a moment. "I only know the history up to 1910."

Inger said, "I know the history up to 1920, but in the form of prophecy. It is the same history you are experiencing, but now the situation has changed a lot."

Mrs. Danshu looked at Inger, "What happened in 1920?"

Inger didn't know how to tell it, because at that time, mankind had already won, although it was a tragic victory.

Seeing that neither of them could answer, Madam Danshu asked another question: "How did you return to the present and still retain your memories?"

It was due to some strange coincidence that the Wood of Life and Death followed Madam Dan Shu and sent her soul back to her 17-year-old body for resurrection.

But she didn't know what other unexpected coincidences there were in the world.

Alex: “…I don’t know.”

Originally, he could say with certainty that it was a gift from the goddess. But now he was not sure.

Inger was also at a loss for words. He couldn't just say that this was just a comic book and the blond guy next to him was the protagonist of the comic book, right?

Madam Danshu smiled, and with the generosity of an adult, she tolerated the two children's ignorance, and then asked, "Then what important things have happened in the years since I died?"

She had to have some valuable information to recoup.

Alex and Inger looked at each other and nodded at the same time.

They had originally planned to use a roundabout way to test and guide the Mond family to prepare for war, but now that this had happened, they could tell the truth as much as possible.

So they organized the language and told the truth about what happened in the Eastern Continent and the invasion of the demons. Many details were difficult to fake.

Mrs. Danshu was also stunned.

Then she stood up, paced a few steps, and whispered: "I must tell Leon about this...but he won't believe it..."

Alex: "Assuming the time of the demon invasion does not change, we still have time before 1900. I don't know what changes we will bring, but we need to prepare in all aspects as soon as possible. We need your help."

Dan Shu took a breath, calmed down, stood up again, and looked directly into the boy's golden eyes: "So, in what capacity do you speak to me?"

Alex opened his mouth, and finally stretched out his hand and said, "My name is Alex Chune, and I ask for your help in the name of a human knight."

Mrs. Danshu stared at him for a while, then reached out her hand and placed it in his palm.

Alex bent down and gave a standard and respectful kiss on the hand.

"Your Highness the Ninth Prince, I will do my best for the people of my territory and my family. I hope you can fully trust me in the future, and I will provide help to the best of my ability."

After Mrs. Danshu withdrew her hand, she looked at Inger.

Inger sighed and said, "Inger Nyka."

"So you are the second son of Duke Neka. I heard that you were in poor health and were recuperating in the mansion. I didn't expect you to become such a powerful wizard. Rumors really can't be trusted." Madam Danshu spoke fluent social language.

Inger emphasized: "I am only doing a small favor. Our family will not participate in future wars, but we can support you in the rear."

Madam Danshu smiled sweetly: "I understand how you feel. You must feel relieved to have such a strong financial support."

Inger brought the topic back to the beginning: "Have you agreed to give me the Tree of Life and Death?"

"Of course, you are also one of that special bloodline. Maybe we are from the same origin." Madam Dan Shu led the two of them to the side of the Life and Death Tree.

The half-covered lush flowers now look more lively and agile.

Inger also followed suit and put his hands on the tree trunk, but unfortunately, he heard nothing.

"Pah"

At this moment, a small branch fell at his feet.

He picked it up and took a look. It was slightly longer than his arm. Half of the vertical branch was brown with a hint of green, while the other half was dry and white. There were two small branches, one covered with green leaves and white flowers, and the other lifeless.

Half life and half death, neither life nor death.

He had gathered the last major ingredient needed to make a wand.

I originally just tried it casually to get lucky, but I didn't expect that there would be hope.

Madam Danshu smiled and said, "You will definitely become a great wizard."

Inger put the branch in his pocket and shook his head: "No, no, no, I don't want to!"

Alex laughed. "Duchess, that's just how he is. He always says that."

Madam Dan Shu said in agreement: "Humility is a quality that many noble sons do not have."

Inger had a stern face, not at all happy.

Turning around, they saw Duke Leon leading his men approaching not far away.

"We originally wanted to ask you a question during this trip. Can you answer us from the perspective of the Duchess?"

"What?"

"If the demons invade the East China Sea, will the Duke bring his knights to support them?"

This means that they must first abandon the people who protect the territory.

Madam Danshu quickly gave him an answer: "The Western Territory is also the territory of Chunie, and the people here are also citizens of Chunie. But before becoming citizens of Chunie, we are all human. Leave the Duke's affairs to me."

Alex smiled with satisfaction: "That's enough."