Arad's unruly savior

Chapter 3968 How long has it been since you last basked in the sun?
With keen insight, Yue Na discerned part of the truth and gave Aorola her final diagnosis, telling her to go and ask.

It's not that she had no other options, but rather that those options would strongly influence Aurora's personal will and could fundamentally change a person's mind.

For example, if Aurora were to worship the great goddess Remedios, all her spiritual problems would be resolved under the illumination of the holy light, and by following the god, He would show her the way to the future.

Including the instincts of the race like Domina Hayley, bloodsucking is a characteristic of the vampire race, a survival instinct that bursts forth in order to live, clinging to her soul like a bone-deep affliction, but still well restrained under the guidance of God.

Aurora's inner conflict stems from severe obsessive-compulsive disorder, which she believes will be resolved by following God's light... but God never forces anyone to believe in Him.

Yuena smiled gently, her beautiful face exuding a noble and sacred aura, and added, "Of course, you are welcome to come to the Grand Cathedral of Remidia, both before and after you resolve your issues."

Then, Yue Na sent a private message to Gan Zhe on her phone: "Whose bedroom are you in? I need to talk to you."

After a while, Ye Lin came out from behind the Great Cathedral and said:

"What's wrong? Xiaochu doesn't look at her phone."

.........

This wasn't the first time Aurora had been in close proximity to Ye Lin, but walking side by side like this, as if they were a couple strolling through the streets, was a first for her.

"What flavor do you like? It's on me. The variety of shops here isn't as good as in the Heavenly Realm, but it's still quite extensive." Ye Lin ordered two milk teas at a milk tea shop. One was a common pearl milk tea, and the other was an Aurora milk tea, which he was treating.

"Just regular milk tea, no pearls, less sugar." Aurora hesitated for a moment, then smoothed her hair behind her ear.

Her hair was like silk woven from the sun, giving people a warm feeling.

The staff skillfully made two cups of milk tea. There are plenty of customers with special requests, like not wanting pearls, which is perfectly normal.

The two sat idly on a bench in the square in front of the cathedral. It was noon, and the sun's rays were at their strongest, illuminating the magnificent cathedral building on the first level, as if it were plated with a golden luster, making the place appear extremely sacred and sublime.

Ye Lin chewed on the pearls he had sucked into his mouth, tilted his head back to bask in the sunlight, and laughed, "You probably don't drink these sugary drinks very often, right? I heard you have rather strict requirements for your diet."

Aurora, who was sipping her drink through a straw, nodded. That's right. As an excellent military doctor, she has standardized requirements for herself and cannot be careless about her diet. This is also the reason why she can maintain a perfect figure.

"Is it good?" Ye Lin changed the subject.

Aurora thought for a moment and gave a universal answer: "It's alright."

In terms of taste, it's actually quite good, which would make her want to repurchase it, for example, she wouldn't drink more than one cup every two days.

Aurora didn't understand what the general meant. After taking her away, he bought her milk tea and then sat on the bench.

However, the general himself seems more approachable than he appears in newspapers and online. He is currently basking in the sun with his face tilted back, looking calm and peaceful. Upon closer inspection, one can sense an indescribable air of mystery about him.

Aurora took the initiative to bring up the topic of herself, saying, "Do you want me to pay more attention to the beautiful things in life? My therapist told me that, and I tried it, but it didn't change anything."

"Even now, I still think your lying posture is not standard."

She placed the warm milk tea aside, then reached out and gently tugged at Ye Lin's clothes, smoothing out the wrinkles caused by him lying on the bench. She then straightened his head, and only after everything was in place did she find him much more pleasing to the eye.

Ye Lin didn't move, letting her fidget with her clothes and head, and smiled:
"I just wanted to get some sun with you. How long has it been since you've sunbathed like this?"

Aurora paused for a moment upon hearing this, then calmly replied, "I train outdoors every day..."

“No, no.” Ye Lin shook his head and interrupted, saying, “I mean sunbathing for the sake of sunbathing, not sunbathing while working. The two have completely different meanings.”

Upon hearing the philosophical question posed by the general, Aurora was visibly taken aback. She frowned slightly and quickly considered the answer in her mind. After about ten seconds, she reached out and straightened Ye Lin's tilted head.

"I forgot."

She couldn't remember the last time she went out to sunbathe.

"Think about it." Ye Lin lowered his head, struggling with the remaining pearls in his cup.

Aurora stared silently at the cup in his hand. A few pearls were quite cunning, sliding around at the bottom of the cup like eels. They were difficult to suck up without deliberately poking them with a straw.

After a while, she couldn't help but say, "Actually, you can just open the lid and pour the rest of the pearls directly into your mouth."

"I know." Ye Lin nodded and smiled, "My family made me drink this, saying it's part of my daily training."

It helps train his ability to absorb pearls, and can be used on family members, even flat-faced demons.

Aurora didn't understand; why should there be family rules over just drinking a cup of bubble tea?

Ye Lin stood up, stretched his tired back from his sister-in-law's actions, and said, "Aurora, I've already asked the military headquarters for a week's leave for you. Starting tomorrow, you don't need to go to the support division for this week. You can go anywhere, just don't go to the military headquarters."

"Yuena asked you to talk to Xiaofu, right? Call her and ask her to come out. If she can't come, just tell her that I've also asked for leave for her. Come see me again in a week for the final treatment."

Seeing the general get up to leave after speaking, Aurora's stunned expression deepened, and she subconsciously asked, "Where am I going?"

Ye Lin turned around and smiled, saying, "Go wherever you want. See the snow scenery in the white snowfield, or see the Sky City on the west coast. It's all fine. Anyway, I've already arranged your leave, and it's paid leave."

"You can use the portal in my house as you please, and I won't stop you from going to other dimensions."

…………

Aurora was forced to take a paid week off. After returning to the Celestial Realm, she instinctively drove to the War Commander's office. On the way, she thought of what the General had said and struggled to hold back her tears.

She called Xiao Fu and asked if she had time to meet up. Xiao Fu replied earnestly but tactfully that the War Goddess Special Operations Department was busy with work and couldn't get away easily. She suggested that if there were any problems, they could discuss them over the phone or via email. "The General said that if she can't get you to come, she'll tell you that she's given you a week of paid leave."

“No problem, time and place.” Xiao Fu immediately changed her mind.

That evening, Aurora and Xiaofu met at a newly opened restaurant. It was said that the owner was a real person from the divine realm, and the ingredients used were all imported directly from the divine realm, making it an absolutely authentic otherworldly flavor.

As soon as it opened, it attracted many customers to try it out, and the queue for a number was so long that it took half a month to get one.

Xiao Fu, with a long scorpion braid and dressed casually, couldn't hide her elegant and refined temperament, exuding the charm of a young lady. She exclaimed in surprise, "Not bad, Aurora, you actually managed to book this restaurant."

“Yes, yes.” Raphael nodded and started flipping through the menu.

When Raphael learned that Xiao Fu would get a week of paid leave because of Aurora, he readily joined in and also got a leave.

“Little Swallow, it seems like this isn’t your first time here?” Princess Taylor asked, noticing that Swallow seemed quite familiar with the layout.

"Yes, we've been here." Dressed in a ladylike palace gown, with a quiet and gentle demeanor, Fei Yan nodded. They too had been granted a week of paid leave.

Raphael quipped that although the general had resigned from his military post, his personal influence remained.

In response to Xiao Fu's surprise, Aurora said, "The General helped me reserve this seat. He said he has some connection with the owner here."

The gods opened a shop in Ghent, the capital of the Seventh Empire, and had a very stable supply chain, allowing fresh ingredients to be transported directly from the port of Belleian to Ghent. It would be really difficult to do this without some connections and background.

She never cared about such matters, let alone used the military's power to satisfy her own privileges and cravings. So the position was given to her by the general, who also gave her three cards, saying that she could skip the queue at any time by showing the cards.

Aurora asked if this was too much of an abuse of privilege, but Ye Lin shook his head, saying that the shop owner was entitled to provide special conveniences to his distinguished guests; it was just a meal, what kind of privilege was that?

First served was the most signature and distinctive sour fruit tea of ​​the divine realm, followed by a series of delicacies with divine characteristics. The service was very fast, and they hardly had to wait.

"I'm a little curious about who the owner is." Raphael glanced out through the door of the private room but didn't see the owner.

She knew that because the restaurant focused on making food by hand, the food was served very slowly, but the dishes they ordered were served extremely quickly.

The food in the Celestial Realm is generally salty, and even the famous canned fish and shrimp paste has a salty and savory flavor. In contrast, the food in the Divine Realm is milder because salt is harder to obtain.

The difference in regional tastes meant that their first taste of the food from the Celestial Realm wasn't as amazing as they had imagined, but overall it was still quite good, with a unique flavor, and they could give it a very high rating.

Aurora then asked Xiaofu why, during the military exercise, she chose to perish with the enemy when there was a chance of survival.

"Because that was the best result I could come up with on the spot," Xiao Fu said.

She told Aurora that special operations forces active on the front lines have the right to make their own strategic commands based on the situation on the ground, without having to ask headquarters for a response.

She is the supreme commander of the War Goddess Squadron, and all decision-making power rests with her.

"You know, part of an officer's role is to give the right orders and to have the ability to make on-the-spot judgments. Otherwise, if the soldiers ask the squad leader what to do, the squad leader asks the platoon leader what to do, the platoon leader asks the company commander... and the orders are passed up layer by layer and then down layer by layer, by the time it's all too late."

The headquarters should be responsible for providing correct command on the overall strategic direction.

Xiao Fu took a sip of the fragrant fish; the dish suited her taste perfectly. She recalled:
"At the time, Graney's electromagnetic pulse caused the drones and most of their machinery to malfunction, leaving us only the option to collect battlefield data. This was the last order, an order we had to complete even if it meant our deaths."

"We successfully completed the mapping mission and also discovered the special Grani that emitted the electromagnetic pulse. Indeed, since your Asclepius was derived from Meshrep's personal equipment, it withstood the electromagnetic pulse and could provide us with an energy shield. However, at the time, I judged that with your protection, we had a small chance of escaping the encirclement. But the Grani had already discovered us and could move its position at any time. With the drones destroyed, it would be very difficult to find its location again."

"Therefore, I believe that sacrificing ourselves to restore the combat effectiveness of the entire army is absolutely worthwhile."

“I knew it was an exercise, and I wasn’t trying to show off my spirit of sacrifice. I just treated it as a real war, and that was the best solution I could make at the time.”

After the military exercise, Xiao Fu took the initiative to contact the person in charge of the War Core Workshop and asked her to help upgrade her equipment.

The person in charge was Dr. Gina's former assistant, who took over the War Core Workshop after the doctor became one of the Seven Gods' Elytra.

A significant portion of the equipment used by the War Goddesses, as well as Raphael's Stormtroopers, originated from the War Core Workshop.

Xiao Fu knew what Aurora's inner conflict was, and she also knew that her sacrifice at that time might have affected Aurora's state of mind. However, war is war, and one cannot do something that is detrimental to the course of the war because of one person's mood.

So she explained her reasons for doing so very seriously to the other party, hoping that Aurora wouldn't mind.

Raphael was carefree and unceremonious, constantly eating with her chopsticks and showing off the delicacies of the divine realm. She had suffered greatly from bread during the military exercises, but after returning, everything tasted delicious, and her appetite was getting better and better.

……

First day of vacation.

Aurora, dressed in loose loungewear, lay alone on the bed, her fair and alluring skin partially exposed, basking in the sun, staring blankly into space, unsure of where to go next.

The general's sudden vacation and unexpected free time caught her completely off guard, and she had no idea where she wanted to go.

Her life was filled with the routines of the military, like a set program, and she was just a robot.

"She said she resigned, but she was just being polite to you the moment she opened her mouth," Aurora muttered to herself.

Suddenly, Aurora sat up straight in bed, quickly tidied herself up, picked up her suitcase, and drove off.

She hadn't been home to see her mother, the legendary army doctor Serena Joseph, for some time.

"You mean, the General gave you a leave of absence, and you didn't know what to do, so you came here to see me?" Selena Joseph, wearing her reading glasses, glanced at her daughter with a scrutinizing look in her eyes.