Duanhe Plain, Duogu Village.
Duogu Village is quite lively today. From grandmas and grandpas, uncles and aunts to little kids who can stumble around, all gather on the vacant lawn in the village, forming a circle in three layers.
In the center of the circle, there was a small empty space where village chief Vann and Derek stood.
"Hmm!" Derek coughed heavily, and a bolt of lightning struck above everyone's head. With a loud bang, the whispers in the crowd stopped abruptly, and the effect of silence was outstanding. He shook his ears - two tufts of furry, pointed ears sticking out from his black hair. He was very satisfied with the effect he created, and said in a deep voice, "Be quiet. Listen to Vane!"
In addition to his ears, he also had silver-blue lines near his eyes, like the patterns on the fur of some magical beast, wild and rugged.
But the villagers around were used to it. It would be strange if anyone didn't grow horns, wings, tails, ears, patterns or something like that these days.
Even the village chief Fan En had long nails on all ten fingers, looking like a grown-up girl. The only difference was that the nails on his hand were not only long, but also sharp. The villagers had tried using pots, pans, kitchen knives, etc. at home, and they would poke a hole in them. They were so hard.
Fann was holding a book in his hands. After just a few days, he was able to use his hands flexibly without being hindered by his long nails. You know, when his nails first grew longer, he was not used to it, which caused his bedding, clothes, furniture... almost all of them to be damaged.
He used his fingernails to lightly flip open the thick book in his hand and looked at everyone with a smile: "I think everyone has heard that there is something called a newspaper in Iluf?"
The villagers nodded.
"There are many types of newspapers in Iluf. Recently, one of them, called the Brilliant Daily, has been distributed in our Broken River Plain," he said.
Brilliant Daily?
Dazzling?
When the villagers heard the key words and combined them with the reason why the village chief suddenly called them together today, they immediately became excited.
"Hey, is it the Brilliant from the Brilliant Throne?"
"Newspaper? I heard on the 'Wendy's Ear' broadcast that it seems to be used to publish all kinds of news?"
"Is there any news about Ash?"
"Is there really any news about Ash?"
"Hmm." Derek coughed again, and then thundered, "Quiet, quiet. Yes, it's just as you think! Vane has cut out the newspapers with news about Ash, pasted them together, and will read them to you right away!"
The villagers looked at Fann excitedly, then fell silent again.
As the focus of everyone's attention, Fann remained calm and said calmly: "The newspaper I got is from the past year of the Brilliant Daily. They said they gave it to us for trial reading. After reading it, if you are interested, you can contact them from now on to subscribe to the latest daily newspaper in the future."
He lowered his eyes and looked at the newspaper clippings in his hand, with a smile in his eyes: "Ash is good. In less than a year, he has been on the news several times, and they were all headlines."
He began to read the press releases to everyone in chronological order.
The first one: "The Wizards Association has another undercover agent from the Secret Alliance, and the task force returns empty-handed."
The content is quite standard. It basically talks about how some members of the Secret Alliance sneaked into the Seventh Wizard Tower of the Radiant Throne, which led to the failure of their mission to that... Familio Manor.
Ash was not the protagonist of the news and his name only appeared once.
As an innocent passerby implicated in an undercover incident.
Aubrey squeezed to the front row, frowning, "What nonsense is this daily newspaper saying! Ash is not an orphan from Stone Castle! He is from our Duogu Village!"
Shanna, who was standing next to him, poked the sharp corner of his forehead. She was very interested in this recently. "Do you really want Ash to loudly declare in Iluv that we are from Broken River Plains? Has your brain been pushed out by these two horns?!"
Aubrey clenched his fists. "Sooner or later, I will let Ash loudly proclaim his origins in Iluv!"
The adults next to him felt sorry for Ash who had just arrived in Iluv and encountered a crisis.
"Who are those people in the Camarilla? Ash has no grudge against them, so why did they ambush him on the tundra? That vampire named Quentin, is he blind or mentally ill? How could he have the heart to kill Ash, who is so obedient?"
"Yeah, this vampire is so abominable!"
"Compared to that, the vampire who helped Ash, eh, was called Scarlet Moon? What a weird name! This Scarlet Moon is not bad!"
"Scarlet Moon? We should thank her. Without her, Ash would be in danger."
"Hey, there are good and bad vampires. Ash is lucky, the good vampires he met are much more powerful than the bad ones!"
"If we have the chance to meet Scarlet Moon in the future, we must thank her!"
"Mm-hmm! Yes, yes, yes!"
“…”
Fann listened to everyone's discussion, with a strange arc at the corner of his lips. A chance to meet? Thank you?
He waited until everyone had finished communicating before continuing to read calmly.
The second news: "The best winner of the Starfall Shining Contest: the third wizard tower! (Picture: The most shining ever! Throughout the Galaxy of the Royal City!)"
Fann coughed lightly. "Ash was not mentioned in this news, but the Scarlet Moon was mentioned. But if you look at this picture, the brightest spot in the center, I feel like I saw Ash."
He turned the clipping booklet inside out and showed it to the villagers.
It was a high-definition picture of the night sky.
The stars are shining brightly, like the Milky Way pouring down, illuminating the boundless sky.
Among the endless starlight, at the end of the Milky Way, there is a most bright and dazzling star.
It was just a little starburst.
Even if there is something behind the starlight, it is completely invisible.
But Aubrey stared at the starry sky and said in a trance, "I, I think I saw...Ash?" He widened his eyes and pointed at a point where the starlight was lingering in disbelief, "I actually saw Ash!"
There was clearly no outline at all, so how did he see it?
I couldn't help but doubt myself.
But soon, different sounds were heard sporadically around.
"I think so too."
"Ash seems to be there?"
"Here? I thought he was there, too!"
“…”
Aubrey's uncertain mind gradually calmed down. Since everyone felt this way, it couldn't be that everyone was having a collective illusion, right?
He stared at the star map and clicked his tongue: "Hey, Ash, how did he make such a big noise? Is he okay? It looks like he was blown into a firework."
Shanna poked his horn speechlessly. What does it mean to explode into a firework? Can you still speak?
It is such a beautiful and romantic scenery!
But she was a girl after all, so she was more thoughtful and noticed something that was not easily noticed: "The news said that the fireworks were most likely created by Scarlet Moon. Now there is Ash in the fireworks. After being saved by Scarlet Moon, did Ash become friends with him?"
Fann smiled slightly. You are so naive, little girl.
Did you know that Ash from our village is so awesome?
He continued with the third news, "Duel for Love! The truth behind the confrontation between the First and Third Wizard Towers!"
The duel took place shortly after the Shining Contest.
The center is the grandson of the master of the First Wizard Tower, Lawton Bloomer, who admires Scarlet Moon's beauty. He and Scarlet Moon's pursuer, Ash Elwyn from the Third Wizard Tower, have a man-to-man duel witnessed by the academy teacher Zexis.
Result: Ash wins.
After the recitation, the whole place fell into an eerie silence.
After a long while, Granny Lena, the oldest person in the village, trembled and said, "I was wrong before."
Everyone looked at her: "What?"
Grandma Lena said with relief: "I used to say that little Ash is quiet every day and doesn't play with little girls. He can't get a wife unless God helps. I didn't expect that he would take the initiative to pursue girls after being away for only a few months. Scarlet Moon, hey, although this girl is not a human and can fight a little, as long as Ash likes her, it's fine!"
Fann: “…” Scarlet Moon seems to be a man, mother-in-law.
Before Fann could speak, the other aunts looked relieved: "That's right! As long as Ash likes it!"
"Scarlet Moon saved Ash. This is fate!"
"She must be a good, kind girl! Ash has good taste!"
"But this girl seems to be very famous and powerful in Iluv? Can Ash catch her?"
"Why not? Our Ash is so good, they are a perfect match!"
The elite warriors of the hunting team also looked proud: "Not bad! Ash didn't bring shame to our hunting team!"
“Well done!”
"If someone outside is coveting my wife, I must beat him up! Let him know that not everyone is worthy of his desires!"
Fann: “…” emmm…it seems interesting to let everyone think so?
He didn't explain any more, and started the fourth piece of news as everyone kept asking, "Did Ash manage to get Scarlet Moon?"
——"Something strange happened in the Snow Demon's lair, and the Scarlet Moon disappeared unexpectedly."
The main character is still Scarlet Moon, with only a passing mention that "missing with Scarlet Moon was Ash Elwyn, a wizard apprentice from the Radiant Academy."
Alas! It has only been a short time, how come something unexpected happened again?
The villagers were worried. Although they guessed that Ash should be fine later, they still couldn't help but urge Fann, "Hurry up, where's the news?"
As long as Ash appears in the news later, we can see if he is safe.
Fann knew how everyone felt, because when he was clipping newspapers and saw this piece of news, his hands started shaking and he almost tore the newspaper.
He began to read the fifth news item, which suddenly changed its style: "Sir Alwin, please teach us about love!"
After several months of absence, when Ash appeared in the daily newspaper again, he was not only safe and sound, but also successfully married the girl.
"Oh my."
“Tsk, tsk, tsk.”
The elders calmed down and exclaimed in joy. Ash made friends and found a lover outside, which made them finally feel a little relieved and relieved - at least they knew that there were people who cared about Ash in Iluf.
"Great job, Ash!"
"Speed up, Ash!"
Ash's friends laughed and said, "The newspaper said it was very difficult to pursue Scarlet Moon, but it doesn't look that difficult." In their eyes, how could Ash have any tricks to seduce people? Scarlet Moon, who even the clumsy Ash could get, how could she be the kind of high-class beauty that the newspaper said?
The news must be exaggerating!
Except for Aubrey and Shanna, the other friends who are still single pretended not to be envious and jealous, and acted as if they didn't care: "If it were us, we could get her in a few more scarlet moons!"
Fann smiled slightly, "Come to think of it, Brilliant Daily also gave away a collector's edition issue from a few years ago."
"Ashe wouldn't have been in the content from a few years ago." Someone said, "Why are you talking about this?"
"There's a list of Iluv's most beautiful magical creatures." Vann took out the newspaper, unfolded it, shook it in his hand, and showed it to everyone, "Here, Ash's date, the one ranked first."
The vampire's beautiful face, which was so perfect that it was beyond belief, was suddenly revealed to the villagers.
The venue fell into a strange silence again.
Even everyone's breathing fell silent in an instant.
There was a long silence.
After a long, long time, Ash's friends said with difficulty: "That's great, Ash!"
Screaming madly in my heart——
"Sir Alwin, please teach us how to love!"
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