Alien world

Chapter 1917, Section 550: Heart-to-Heart Talk
Annan blushed and said, "You... shameful! despicable!"

The essence of negotiation is to see who is more willing to go all out, and clearly, Annan was not as willing as Chief Gana.

"Alright, you've trained enough. Take a few days to rest, and then head to the Trapezoidal Mountain to report for duty."

Anyway, there aren't many battles left in the north of the empire; the major ones have all been dealt with. It's good to let the Winter Legion go over there to pick up the scraps and get a feel for things.

"That's pretty much it."

Bruno Gana loosened Annan's collar, and two streams of hot air gushed from his nose.

Only then did Gemar dare to approach and bow slightly to Annan: "I understand your good intentions; you want the Winter Legion to work together seamlessly..."

“If you want to flatter me, do it in private. Don’t get in my way!” Brino Jana interrupted him irritably. “If you left your ancestors frozen in the snow for hundreds of years, I don’t believe you wouldn’t be anxious.”

Gema gave a wry smile.

“Riri, come here.” Brino Janna beckoned to the little girl being held by her tribesmen, and pointed to Annan, saying, “This is Annan, the master of Free City, and he will be your lord from now on.”

"Why did you bring a little girl back?" Annan smiled kindly at the little girl who was holding a cat.

Brino Janna said, "Her father went into the mountains to earn money for his wife's medical treatment but was eaten by wild animals. Her mother died in bed with no one to take care of her, leaving her all alone. I brought her back and plan to train her to be an excellent female warrior."

Lily leaned closer: "Are you called Ruili? I'm Lily."

"Wow, it's so pretty!" The little girl looked at Lily with sparkling eyes and reached out to touch its upturned tail.

"It doesn't matter if you're not a member of the tribe?"

"The Gana family does not value bloodlines."

After all, given the Janna family's preference for girls, if they valued bloodlines, they would have long since perished in the meat grinder between the Northern Fortress and the Demon Portal.

……

As evening fell, Anan returned to the city lord's mansion. As soon as he went up to the second floor, he encountered the silly cat and Lily with her tails sticking up, running wildly in the corridor.

"Silly cat, where are you going with a bag of dried fish in your mouth?"

"Do you tube!"

Watching Him leap onto the windowsill at the end of the corridor and quickly disappear outside with Lily, Annan shook his head helplessly. Just like his second sister, he was always causing trouble…

Back in the lounge, the eldest sister was holding a cup of coffee, a blanket covering her knees, her smooth black hair cascading down, exuding tranquility and beauty.

She looked at Anan as he walked in and smiled, saying, "Anan, you are truly amazing. I never dreamed that we would have... a deity of our own."

"You meant to say 'only' just now, didn't you?"

Don't make fun of me.

"I was wrong," Annan quickly admitted.

He couldn't quite put his finger on whether he felt indebted or not, but when facing Italia, Annan didn't even bother to raise his voice slightly, saying, "With the silly cat, we have more confidence in doing many things."

Italia didn't know what Annan meant by "many things," but whatever he did, she would support him.

"By the way, does Evelyn know?"

"Yes, she came too."

"Tell her not to write the news yet."

Annan had no intention of hiding the existence of the silly cat, but it was not appropriate to make it public either; it was best to keep it a secret.

“I’ve already spoken to her.”

Italia paid more attention to these things than Annan. After all, with the struggle for the High King imminent, revealing at this time that there was a god behind the Free City would inevitably make Annan a target of attention.

Before it got dark, Annan went to see Eli Shatter to discuss the construction of the Silly Cat Church.

"Let me build a church?"

Upon learning that he would be designing the entire project himself without any assistants, Eli Stone was both nervous and excited: "I can give it a try, but I need a portrait of the Cat and the Church of the Midnight Maidens as a reference."

"You'd better invite some members of the church." "No problem, I'll even invite God for you."

Eli Stonecutter, unaware of the matter concerning the silly cat, thought Annan was joking, while Annan had already run off to find the silly cat.

He went to several places where the silly cat used to frequent, but he was nowhere to be found. Lily also didn't see him for a long time.

However, in Liberty City, no one can escape Lilith's gaze, no one can.

Annan got the answer from Lilith, brought a ladder, and climbed from the terrace onto the roof.

The silly cat sat under the eaves of the house under the moon, bathed in silver light like a maid of the moon goddess.

“I knew you’d be here.” Annan walked toward the silly cat.

The silly cat flicked its tail in response.

Annan sat down next to Him and looked in the direction He was gazing. He saw the brightly lit Free City and the ships on the bay twinkling like stars.

The night breeze brings a sense of peace to the heart.

"You seem a little down?" Annan asked Him.

"I am a god, how could I be down?" The silly cat swung its tail more vigorously, saying something that didn't match its true feelings.

"Is it something to do with the church? I've already put a master architect in charge, but I still need your help."

The silly cat still didn't turn its head, only turned its ears toward Annan, indicating that it was listening.

"What's the deal?"

“Building a church requires references. Find some portraits of previous churches, as well as your believers, and bring them over as well.”

The silly cat's tail stopped wagging.

"They're all gone..."

What does "no longer exist" mean?

The silly cat seemed to recall the shouts of battle that day and the raging fire that burned his eyes and engulfed the church.

"To protect me, my followers perished together with the invaders."

"Who is the intruder?"

The silly cat raised its head—

"Don't say stupid things like 'you're no match for them.' Since I took you in, I'll have to face them sooner or later. The sooner you understand your future enemy, the better you can prepare."

"What do you mean you took me in?!"

"So you chose me?"

"That's pretty much it..."

The silly cat wasn't as down as it had been, and told Annan that the intruders were followers of the Lady of the Night.

The reason is simple: although the cat and the midnight girl are weak deities, the "midnight" in their divine duties is associated with the night.

As is widely known, the greater the divine authority, the more powerful the deity. Examples include the goddess of life, the god of death, and deities of light and darkness, as well as the goddesses of forests and the sea.

The Lady of the Night, who rules the night, is a powerful and mysterious deity. Unlike deities who wield divine fire and wield power through faith, the Lady of the Night was an extremely powerful legend before becoming a god.

For example, it's roughly another ancestor.

Such beings, who "possess power within themselves," will only persist in following their own path, even after becoming gods.

He hardly recruits believers and never responds to them. They can believe if they want and leave if they don't. He doesn't even care that a corner of his priesthood has been taken away by the silly cat. He only has a secret society for exchanging knowledge on a daily basis.

Then turmoil broke out, and even the Lady of Night was unable to thwart this terrifying plot against all the gods.

(End of this chapter)