Chapter 83 World E:1 Passing through a teleportation system like a starry sky...
Passing through a portal that resembled a starry sky, they arrived at a place that was surprisingly bright. Ternas and Ethan couldn't help but squint or close their eyes due to the intense light, and it took a while for their eyes to adjust to the brightness.
What came into view was a place that could be described as a palace, decorated in silver and gold, sparkling brightly. Ethan almost thought they hadn't left the previous world, because the decorations he saw looked extremely expensive.
Before they could even take a closer look at the situation, the scene changed, and the next second they found themselves in another unfamiliar place.
The decor looked similar, so they shouldn't have gone too far. In front of them was a huge white cloth, which was slowly pulled open from both sides, revealing the figures behind it.
God. Ethan's first thought was God.
A woman dressed in a heavy white robe stood out, wearing a white cloth with gold patterns on her head, and exquisite and luxurious gold ornaments of similar price on her forehead and neck. She was barefoot, with a gold ring on her ankle, and her long golden hair was casually draped over her shoulders.
The woman lowered her gaze; her emerald eyes appeared gentle, like the vibrant spring, a time of renewal, as tender as Mother Earth. Below her eyes were mysterious golden patterns, like ancient, obscure symbols no longer recognizable, which amplified her inhuman aura.
Her eyebrows furrowed slightly, like a compassionate deity unable to accept the suffering of her beloved children. Seeing this, one couldn't help but want to smooth her furrowed brows and cheer her up.
This seemingly gentle and empathetic woman slowly raised her eyes and glanced at them. A tremendous force, which they had no power to resist, overwhelmed them, and the two fell to the ground in a sorry state.
She walked around the two of them once, and finally stopped beside Ternas, squatted down, and stretched out her hand.
Tenas felt those cold fingers poke his face, then gently pinch it, and a woman's slow, gentle voice sounded above him: "...Leona? What's your name?"
"I... my name is Ternas." Ternas managed to squeeze out his voice from under the gravity. His intuition was pounding wildly. The woman in front of him was extremely dangerous and could easily take their lives. His will to survive outweighed everything else. He didn't think about the strange sense of familiarity, nor did he pay attention to the name the woman had called out before asking him.
"Tenas." The name lingered on the woman's lips, and then he heard her undisguised disgust: "What an awful name."
Turnas: "..."
I'm so sorry he has this name.
"What's your last name?" The woman, in a moment of mercy, released his face. "What's your last name?"
"Winter, I am Turner Winter." Turner could only answer her question in this situation; he was no match for her.
"Hmm? I understand." The woman gave a soft hum, her expression unreadable to Truss. She stood up, walked to Ethan's side, and squatted down again. "And you? What's your name?"
"Ethan Nix." Ethan honestly gave his name, flustered. Only after saying it did he realize that some magic could be cast through names, which made him even more panicked. It was the first time he had heard his heart pounding so loudly.
“Knicks? Knicks…” The woman seemed thoughtful, giving him a suspicious look up and down: “Are you afraid? Afraid of me?”
"...Perhaps a little nervous?" Ethan carefully chose his words: "Because we were suppressed without doing anything."
"If you haven't done anything, why are you so nervous? You haven't done anything at all, have you?" the woman retorted. "Or are you planning to do something? What is your purpose in coming into this world? Are you here to do something detrimental to it?"
"No, no..." Ethan was too tongue-tied to say anything, then felt his hand being gently pinched. It was Turner telling him to stop talking.
"The reason we came to this world is..." Tenas briefly explained the predicament they encountered, indicating that if she felt threatened or anything, they could leave now, because this world was far more dangerous than other worlds, at least other worlds did not suppress them from the start.
"I see. I'm not interested in that, but I can give you some power for your sake, just a little." The woman gestured with her thumb and forefinger, her attitude becoming much more casual: "It's a pity you're not a woman. If you were, I would give you more."
...For his sake?
Because she eased the atmosphere and grasped the key point of her words, Turner recalled her somewhat unpredictable attitude towards him earlier and guessed that she must know him in this world.
"You, are you... someone who knows this world?" Turnas quickly changed his form of address, seeking an answer.
“Yes,” she said. “I am the God of Light, and your counterpart is my saintess.”
Saintess... No wonder they said it was a pity you weren't a woman. They even asked for your name and surname at first, probably because you look too much like a woman.
Wait, if that's the case, then she isn't...?
"Kagerou... Lord?" Tenas asked tentatively.
“You know me, let me guess—” Yang Yan pretended to think: “Parallel universes should be roughly the same, with some settings being relatively fixed. So, in your world, am I in a similar position to you? In a similar position to you?”
“You are the will of the city of Yangyan that I gave birth to,” Tenas said. Ethan Doudou, who had never officially met Yangyan, looked at the two of them and felt that they looked strangely familiar.
"And what about you?" Yang Yan looked at Ethan. "Your power feels strangely familiar to me. Are you Cynthia's guardian? Who is Selene Nix to you?"
“Selene is my mother.” Ethan hesitated. “As for Cynthia… is she?”
"Oh, it seems your world doesn't use personal names because of the city aspect. Yangyan is actually a nickname, not my real name. My real name is Helia. You can call me Yangyan. Just now, when your world's Leonna called me, I didn't even realize it at first." Yangyan opened her hands, and divine power constructed an image. A murderous black-haired woman appeared, grabbing the first-person perspective's clothes, looking like she wanted to tear her to pieces: "I don't know Cynthia's nickname. She looks like this. Is she your city's will? What's her nickname?"
“Starfall, Lord Starfall.” Ethan immediately recognized the face of his own city’s will: “I am indeed the guardian of Starfall City.”
The weight pressing down on me vanished in an instant.
“Starfall? That name suits her quite well.” Yang Yan said, standing up and sitting down on a chair that had appeared out of nowhere next to her. It was the kind of shiny chair that Ethan had made in the last world. A smile appeared on her face: “I was wondering why the power felt familiar. So you’re the son of an old friend… Oh, no, you’re Selene’s child. Anyway, you’re related to Cynthia.”
"Do you know my mother?" Yang Yan asked boldly, having uttered his mother's name again, now that Yang Yan had let go of his pressure and become more friendly.
“I know you. Your mother is a saint of Cynthia, but I remember Selene was born in… a country of faith in Novigrad, right? I wonder how she became a saint of Cynthia.” After learning about their identities, Yang Yan’s attitude was completely different from before: “We all regard the will of your city as a god, and we all have our own areas of faith. For example, Leona was born in a country that worships me, and everyone there is a believer of mine. She is the most outstanding and talented child among them.”
"And what about Lord Starfall?" Ethan's curiosity was piqued; he wanted to know about Starfall and his mother in this world. "How is my mother in this world?"
“I heard her family wasn’t very good, she was an orphan.” Yang Yan answered Selene first, then thought for a moment: “I don’t know anything else, but I heard she’s a very strong and resolute person. I just thought you were her counterpart, you look very similar, but your personalities are unrelated. Also, Cynthia seems to be quite satisfied with her, and Cynthia is probably in a higher position in terms of power, with her being second in line.”
"And what about Lord Starfall?" Hearing that Selene seemed to be doing well, Ethan breathed a sigh of relief and quickly asked Starfall.
“Oh my god, I get angry just thinking about Cynthia.” Yang Yan rolled her eyes, which didn’t match her delicate appearance. “When she was first born, I invited her to cooperate and earn faith. We acted out some scenes, pretending that we knew we were on opposite sides. At that time, the newborns hadn’t chosen their own godhood yet, but she just wouldn’t agree. She even argued and fought with me. Now she’s still beating me up when she sees me.”
Earning faith through acting? That doesn't sound like a very good thing...
Turner frowned, and Ethan asked somewhat nervously, "...What was your initial script?"
“Oh, that? I remember it was supposed to be that Cynthia was my adversary, because I had already been born a long time ago, had already chosen my own godhood, and had a pretty good faith.” Yang Yan recalled the past with some regret: “Unlike now, where all the faith has been taken away by Cynthia. The script for her was that of the God of Darkness, and then we pretended that we had some friction, and the friction got bigger and bigger, and then we pretended to fight a few battles, creating the impression that the relationship was getting worse and worse, so that the believers below would also become adversaries.”
Turnas: "..."
Ethan: “…”
This script just doesn't feel right! Is this how you earn faith through cooperation and mutual benefit?!
"It's a pity that Cynthia fought me a few times before running off to build her own faith. You could call it running away then, right? She was quite weak back then." Yang Yan sighed with deep regret. "But later she developed rapidly, stealing many faiths from others, including mine. It's really a shame. But she still chose the Dark Godhood in the end. So, since she chose the Dark Godhood, why couldn't she cooperate with me? Cynthia is so annoying..."
Tenas: ...It seems the two of them don't get along in this world. Before, City Lord often spoke ill of the Starfall Will to him...It seems their relationship has always been bad in other worlds as well.
Ethan, who knew about Starfall, was having a brainstorming session on the spot.
Wait, so he wasn't an old friend... Never mind, I can't really explain what kind of relationship this is.
So they weren't friends, they were enemies!
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Author's Note: Xingyun hates acting. Their relationship is genuinely bad. Also, if things are like this, it would be perfectly reasonable for her to be killed by Yangyan one day – "eliminating evil," right? If it were really an act, who's to say Yangyan wouldn't use that as a reason to kill her?
Yang Yan in this world looks very holy and compassionate, like a true god, but she's actually a bad guy [laughing and crying with face covered]. She was the one who drove away Xingyun (although she can't beat him now).
This week I need to update 20,000 words. There are seven of my posts on the charts, including other related ones! Can I see who's following me? I'm practically killing myself with writing! [laughing and crying emoji] I'm really feeling like I can't write anymore lately. Work is so tiring; I haven't had a day off this week, just been working non-stop. Tonight I have a night shift, and tomorrow I have a long night shift.
I'll write a few more worlds and then join the others, because if this keeps dragging on, I don't know when I'll ever finish. So far, only Turner has joined me [crying emoji]. There are so many people! I should be able to finish writing within the 26 letters of the alphabet, right?
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