After the Holy Domain Chief of the Roland clan said goodbye and left, An Nan's tense nerves finally relaxed and he leaned back against the soft chair.
On the desk in front of her was a cube crystal, in which a winged ivory platinum pony was sleeping. It was the secret magic spirit of the Roland clan - the Pegasus magic spirit. After being activated, the magic spirit would directly transform into a two-winged Pegasus, which could be ridden, assist in combat, and fight alone.
This is an extremely rare beast-taming magic spirit, because the magician summons the magic spirit based on knowledge and inspiration, and builds the magic spirit from scratch. Therefore, the magic factions that we often come into contact with in daily life, such as fist and claw magic, earth magic, water magic, and gun magic, are mainstream, or it can be said that most of the mainstream magic comes from common skills that ordinary people can master.
Ordinary magicians cannot learn, touch or understand those difficult magic schools, such as prophecy, destiny, and truth.
The Beast Taming faction also meets the characteristics of this kind of difficult magic - how can ordinary people understand other creatures? You can ride a horse, but you are only proficient in riding; you can train dogs, but you are only proficient in domination; you adopt many wild cats, but you are only proficient in kidnapping... People can only be proficient in human skills, there is no skill that allows people to become other creatures!
Maybe someone is thinking, can I play other animals, such as a dog, a cat, or a horse? But a dog's stomach can digest feces, can a human digest it? A cat can lick its fur, where can a human lick its fur? A horse can sleep standing up, can a human?
And even if you succeed in the role playing, you can probably only summon the corresponding beast spirit, which is a long way from taming the beast. The gap between the two is equivalent to the gap between learning how to dress as a woman and finding a girlfriend.
At present, the main way to obtain beast-controlling spirits, besides exploding from the projection of the magician, is to tame the virtual creatures and let them become beast-controlling spirits. But the virtual creatures are not afraid of death, so how can they succumb to the magician's power? The magician can only forcibly enslave the virtual creatures, and it is impossible to make them return to their hearts on their own.
The only exception is the Goblin Warlock. Creatures from the Void Realm are often not hostile to Goblins. Although the chance is still slim, a Goblin Warlock can often tame two or three creatures from the Void Realm in his lifetime. They are also the main source of Beast Taming Spirits.
But the Roland family is not a goblin family. Their Pegasus spirits are stable and are not obtained by taming virtual creatures. The current mainstream speculation is that there is a virtual creature in the Roland family that accidentally escaped to the real world and was taken care of by more than a dozen mares every day. There is a chance that it will give birth to an illegitimate child recognized by the virtual world, so the family brand "Roland Pegasus" was created.
Beast Taming Spirits are difficult to summon, and naturally difficult to advance, and can only rely on feeding virtual materials. Ordinary one-winged Pegasus can already meet the needs of the magician's virtual world transportation, and two-winged Pegasus can even fly for a short period of time. The Roland family's sincerity in this gift is very heavy, and the number of two-winged Pegasus Spirits in their family will not exceed double digits.
However, An Nan was not interested in this. She herself had a mobile miracle and had no great demand for Pegasus. Moreover, she loved motorcycles and always felt that this mount, which was not made of steel and had black blood flowing in its veins, was not cool enough.
Let’s keep it as a toy for the little Banji, An Nan thought, and put away the magic spirit sealing crystal.
In comparison, Roland Sanctuary's respectful attitude towards her made her heart surge.
The Roland Sanctuary that just left was the number one on the Sanctuary Combat Power List, and he was undoubtedly a top powerhouse! In the era when the legendary Bistin was not born, he was the most powerful Gospel that was in action!
To be frank, An Nan had seen Mercury Sanctuary, Kesri Sanctuary, Qinna and his best friend Cleos. Even if the four of them were tied together, they would not be enough to fight Roland Sanctuary alone! Just sitting opposite him, An Nan could feel his magic spirit trembling - Qinna and the others had never brought this level of pressure to An Nan!
For example, Annan's spirit is a well-trained veteran, Qinna's spirit is a battle-hardened officer, and Roland's spirit is a warrior who crawled out of a sea of blood and corpses! Annan even suspected that the spirits in Roland Sanctuary were all covered with scars!
An Nan was not even qualified to meet such a powerful Saint Realm master and family leader before, but now he took the initiative to visit him, presented the family's secret magic as a gift, and his attitude was respectful and polite... even close to fawning!
Roland Sanctuary was not the only one. Mercury, Kesri, Vastino... these consortium families that controlled the major cities of Gospel all expressed strong goodwill towards Annan, a mere two-wing magician. The gifts Annan received had filled up his drawers, and he even had a lot of first-tier city properties under his name.
It would be a lie to say that An Nan was not secretly happy. She had a bad personality and loved to trample on authority. When she was running the firm in the past, she had inevitably had friction with these conglomerate families. Now, seeing them being more humble than each other, An Nan felt as if she had inhaled the white mist of Fanmula, and her whole body was refreshed.
But she was not blinded by this vanity. She understood that what these people really respected was not her, An Nan, but the queen behind her.
The only ruler of the next fifty years of gospel, the Queen of Flute who has the power to interfere with the gospel system!
People who are close to power often mistakenly believe that they have power. An Nan certainly would not make such a low-level mistake. She patted her face and continued to write the "Gospel City System Investigation Report", trying to finish it within three days and hand it over to His Majesty Diyin.
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After Ash and the others were teleported away, An Nan thought that Liz would be sad for at least several days before she recovered. However, that afternoon she began to fulfill her responsibilities as Diyin - she quickly took over the palace secret guards, summoned representatives of various families, and announced the smooth succession of the throne, as if nothing had happened.
The only difference is that she established a new department: the Witch Political Construction Bureau, and appointed An Nan as the first witch.
Diyin’s attitude is clear: the gospel will not change in the short term, but she will soon try to interfere with the gospel system and transform the country according to her own wishes.
She herself may not have a strong desire to rule, but whether it is to prepare a gift for Ash or to completely control the gods, she cannot sit on the throne and be a container of gospel.
However, can Di Yin, a mortal, control a divine spirit that even legendary magicians find difficult to control?
It really works.
Because the glory of the Gospel Spirit penetrates into every corner of the Gospel Kingdom, and operates the society with its own will. In simple terms, it replaces the people's thoughts with its own ideas, so the Gospel Kingdom is so harmonious and peaceful, there are no barriers between people, there is no internal friction in the production and labor links, and the gears of the state machine never seem to rust - because they are all under the control of a unified will.
However, this also creates an opportunity to control the gospel - as long as we interfere deeply with the operation of society and use the people's thoughts to influence the will of the gospel, Diyin can take advantage of the opportunity to enter and replace the gospel with our own heart!
Of course, this is just a preliminary idea. After all, Diyin cannot interfere with the gospel system now, and they are not even sure what kind of future they want to create, so the Witch Political Bureau came into being.
Diyin hopes that Annan will formulate a development plan written by the evangelists themselves based on the "future woven by the gospel", "their own field investigations" and "discussions with expert advisors". Even if after comprehensive judgment, it is believed that the "future woven by the gospel" is the best future, it must be approved by the evangelists themselves before it can be implemented.
"In order to take control of the gospel, I must help you take back the future."
An Nan recalled the solemnity with which Di Yin, who was wearing a snow-white queen dress, said these words. She felt that the person sitting on the throne was not a little girl who was slightly shorter than Yifalin, but a mature queen in her twenties.
It was precisely because of Diyin's decision that so many people visited Annan one after another. There was no doubt that the decisions made by the Witch Bureau would affect the fate of countless people. Whether they wanted to join and become decision-makers, or they were eager to get policy support to break through the ceiling, they had to get Annan's favor.
In addition, they must have been uniting, forming alliances, and splitting up in private, with countless conspiracies brewing and countless contracts being signed. These ambitions, which have been suppressed by God for more than a thousand years and bound by the gospel for more than a thousand years, will have their first and perhaps only major outbreak in the next fifty years.
While taking back the future from the gods, mortal politics is also reborn.
As for why this power was entrusted to An Nan, firstly, An Nan had this intention, and secondly, Di Yin actually didn't have many people to choose from.
And An Nan obviously enjoyed it - the reason why she wanted to blaspheme the gospel and seize the Lord God's wish was to change the gospel kingdom. Now that Di Yin handed her the brush and allowed her to paint freely in the gospel painting, she was simply moving forward quickly on the ideal path.
By the time An Nan finished writing her opinion on the city system of Fanmu La, it was already past ten o'clock in the evening. She suddenly remembered something and hurriedly left the office and went to the bedroom.
Too many things happened today, so An Nan naturally stayed in the palace, since there were plenty of rooms in the palace anyway. She came to her bedroom and saw that little Banji was already asleep in the cradle. The servants who were responsible for taking care of her nodded to her and left the bedroom to do other things - if An Nan needed anything, they would be there at the first time under the guidance of Gospel.
An Nan crouched beside the cradle on tiptoe, looking at little Banji's frowned brows while he was sleeping, and couldn't help feeling a little amused - he was already a baby, why did Banji still have such a worried expression?
She reached out and gently stroked Xiao Banji's forehead, whispering softly: "I may not be able to accompany you often in the future..."
Little Banji clenched his fists and pursed his lips around his blue hair, not realizing that his daughter, whom he had raised for more than 20 years, had a new idea.
But An Nan had no choice. If Diyin had not turned back into Liz, or if Liz had no intention of changing, she would definitely take Xiao Banji back to Azula without any distractions, raise him wholeheartedly, and devote all her care to him.
However, Diyin appointed her as the first witch of the Witch Construction Bureau. The offer was too great. Power, career and ideals were all within reach. An Nan could not refuse. But in this way, An Nan would definitely not have time to accompany Ban Ji. At most, she would visit him from time to time. It was impossible for her to care for him as much as Ban Ji did.
In the end, she still couldn't repay Duolan's debt to Panji.
It would be nice if Ash was here... He could give little Banji a brother or sister...
It was not until now that An Nan suddenly remembered those people who had been picked up by her but were now lost again.
It was as if they had never appeared. No one remembered them, no one paid attention to them, and no one mentioned them. Apart from the remaining rankings on the woven list, they did not seem to have left any traces in this country...but the gospel kingdom seemed to have undergone earth-shaking changes because of their passing.
Perhaps he was overwhelmed by the joy of being close to his ideal, or perhaps he didn't really care that much, An Nan now felt that Ash was no longer there.
In fact, this is normal. They have been together for less than a hundred days. An Nan had lived well for more than 20 years before meeting him. Love does not hold a high position in An Nan's heart as high as her ideal - otherwise she would not have taken Ash to assassinate the princess.
Although An Nan hated and despised everything about Qinna, Qinna's attitude of "family supremacy" still had a profound impact on her - be sure of what you want, and everything else can be sacrificed, this is the law of the six emblems.
After all, how much weight does An Nan's love for Yaxiu have?
Before the "Happiness List" came out, An Nan actually just had a good impression of Ash. In addition to the Sennheiser dream, it was also because Ash was very similar to Pantyhose. There is no doubt that An Nan, who was taken care of and raised by Pantyhose, was naturally deeply influenced by him in his view of choosing a mate. An Nan would subconsciously compare all the opposite sex she met with the housekeeper, and naturally looked down on everyone.
At first glance, Ash and Pantyhose don't seem to have much in common. After all, Pantyhose is a beauty whose appearance is recognized even by Gospel and is constant in his beauty. However, after losing the ranking of the First Gospel, Ash is still a 0-star waste who has not made it onto any list.
However, An Nan felt safe when he was with Ash. Perhaps it was because Ash was different, or perhaps it was because he was willing to take care of Liz, who had no relatives with her. An Nan, who could no longer act like a child in front of Banji, always liked to play pranks with Ash.
There is another thing about Ash that attracts Annan - his laziness.
An Nan herself is the kind of person who cannot sit still and is always thinking about finding the meaning of life. If she really lived in seclusion and had children, she would definitely require her children to study hard every day. It would be best if they could get silver at the age of ten, gold at the age of fifteen, and holy at the age of twenty. They must not waste their lives, just like a moth that must fly into the fire and burn to be complete.
But she also envied those who could enjoy a peaceful life, not those who were brainwashed by consumerism like Meng Feila, nor those who didn't care about real life like Fan Mula, but those who could discover the beauty in life and feel happy and at ease in their daily lives - yes, An Nan envied Yaxiu.
However, these yearnings and feelings of peace of mind are, at best, just unformed likes, seeds waiting to sprout.
The real turning point of the relationship was the announcement of the "Happiness List" and Zang Yi's decision to assassinate the princess.
Death, which was thought to be far away, suddenly became close at hand. An Nan, who was overwhelmed by fear, urgently needed to find a vent to share her pressure, and Yaxiu became her life-saving straw, so this love mixed with dependence was sublimated into a love that lasted until death.
Does she like Ash as a person, or does she like the security, dependence and life she places on him?
Does she want to live with Ash, or does she hope that Ash can experience other beautiful things in life on her behalf so that she can pursue her own ideals without distraction?
An Nan looked at the little Banji in the cradle and whispered softly, "In fairy tales, the protagonists always have a happy ending when they are together. No fairy tale ever tells about the trivialities of living together... Perhaps, this is just as well."
She returned to her room and found the open space filled with suitcases - the palace servants had gone to the underground city and brought back all the things that the funeral had left at the hotel.
Her clothes, shoes, Pancake's daily necessities and notebooks, Harvey's scalpel and harmonica, Iguerra's... wait, whose harmonica?
But soon An Nan's attention was attracted by something else.
"Gift?"