Guild Boss's Ambition

I found the same brilliance in them, that kind of shining beauty.

"Sister Annie, please draw a card." said the snake girl.

"Okay, thank you for your help, Doris." said the senior.

Everyone and I stood aside and watched the divination. This time, Senior Annie drew a total of three cards.

The first two cards that Doris revealed were ordinary cards.

The first one is an adventure card, a card with many evil spirits and monsters on it.

"Scourge of the Undead, this is not a very good card..."

Doris's face suddenly turned grim.

These two are Noble Phantasm Cards, and they are the arrow that President Ehard had drawn earlier.

"Ohh! Arrow of Paris. With this card, even the Scourge will have a weakness!"

Seeing this card, Miss Doris smiled again, and then slowly turned over the last main god card.

There is an eye drawn on the main god card, the eye of a beast, and it says "Beast Of God" at the bottom of the card.

Beast God...

The Scourge of the Undead...

Paris' Arrow...

At first glance, these three things don't seem to have anything to do with each other.

But our Miss Doris was lost in thought as if nothing had happened. She closed her eyes, and a large number of blue runes visible to the naked eye appeared around her. The symbols were very strange. Apart from the 12 constellations, the only things I could understand were the ♂ and ♀ that occasionally appeared in some popular novels.

After a while, Miss Doris slowly opened her eyes, and a fleeting brilliance flashed in her eyes.

"The result of the divination is in! This is a prophecy!"

Perhaps because she foresaw something happy, Miss Doris's voice also became cheerful and lively: "In the cold winter when the night falls, a naughty puppy appears. She will bring surprises to her owner, and she will cause trouble for her owner, but in general, no matter what the result is, it will be a beautiful memory~~"

Having said this, almost everyone looked at Xiaoban who was standing aside, but only Miss Doris and Xiaolan were looking at me.

Yes, that naughty puppy is me.

I lost the bet to Xiaolan last time and promised her something.

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13 God Cards:

Goddess of life and death, goddess of nature

God of War, God of Wisdom, God of Beasts

Yang Jun, Yue Ji

Pluto, Saint King, Demon King

Father Time, Dragon of Space

God of Fertility

53. Sleeping Caesar (Blanny)

(Branny Erhard)

There is a person who likes to be alone.

It’s not just one person who enjoys being alone, either.

I once heard that the reason why people like solitude is because the people around them are not on the same path as them.

But occasionally there are still some idle people who are willing to put aside their own goals and accompany us for a short distance.

What should we call people like that?

Is he a passer-by? Is he a close friend?

"Today's sunshine is so comfortable."

I was walking alone with satisfaction, looking at the sky and tracking a bird flying freely in the sky.

Since I was a child, I have always loved the birds in the sky, their dancing postures when flying, and their melodious sounds. As for the snakes in the snake house, they are a group of natural artists. In order to survive, they disguise themselves as stones, flowers, plants, and rivers. They do this to attack prey and to avoid other powerful predators. At the same time, they also want to attract other members of the opposite sex to reproduce with them.

Shaped by the cruelty of nature, their skin becomes the most delicate canvas.

The female venomous snake in front of me is a work of art among works of art, a masterpiece that should be displayed in an art gallery.

"Why don't you go play with them?"

As if by chance, Aunt Covina walked up to me from behind.

Even in the dead of winter at the end of October, she did not wear thick clothes like the maids in the Snake House, but only wore her favorite gauze long skirt and held an antique pipe that was the same as a hundred years old. Fortunately, she was a great magician and essentially a warm-blooded animal, otherwise I would have been worried about her body temperature.

"Because I haven't been to the Snake House for a long time, I want to take a closer look around." I replied.

"So what did you see?" she asked with a smile.

“…” I thought for a moment and replied, “I see nothing has changed here.”

Aunt Covina didn't deny what I said, nor did she agree with it. She pondered for a moment, deliberately leaving a brief gap in our conversation. After a while, about three minutes, she jumped to another topic: "By the way, what were you thinking about just now? Ruan means... In addition to reminiscing about the old place, you should be doing something special?"

Something special?

"Am I doing anything special?" I asked her curiously.

"You looked very serious just now. If you were just looking at the flowers and plants, would it be necessary to be so serious?" she said.

serious?

Am I serious?

Isn't it just looking at the scenery while thinking about how to compose the painting?

I responded, “I’m not thinking of anything in particular.”

She asked again, "Really?"

“Just practicing composition,” I explained.

Hearing this, she stopped walking with me and stared at me with strange eyes.

"What's wrong?" I looked around and didn't see anything suspicious.

"You've grown up, Branny."

Aunt Covina smiled at me with satisfaction. It was because of her evaluation at that time that I realized my change. People are sometimes like this. Even if they have two eyes, they only have one focus when they concentrate. They are obviously capable of observing the things around them carefully, but they often ignore themselves and forget to adjust their own height in their own hearts.

I nodded slightly and greeted the elder in front of me.

“Yes, I grew up, but everyone grew up, and Doris graduated.”

"No, no, no, silly girl, she has graduated, but she hasn't improved at all and still doesn't know the importance of things."

When talking about Doris, Aunt Covina had an unhappy expression. She started walking again, and her high heels made a clattering sound on the beautifully paved stone floor. The scarf around her waist fluttered in the wind, like a python wagging its tail in the desert.

I said something nice for my childhood friend: "Maybe you are asking too much of her, Auntie."

However, Aunt Corvina was not interested in hearing a word about this topic: "Is this high? I just hope that she can reach the legendary level before she turns 18, earn 19 million before she turns 20, and marry a royal relative or a martial god or magic saint at the age of . I didn't ask that silly girl to assassinate the high elf elders like her two sisters. Do you think this is high?"

"..."

I decisively ended the topic with silence, and Aunt Covina did not continue to complain about her daughter.

She looked at me with her curious snake eyes.

"By the way, Branny, have you figured out what you're going to do?"

"Yeah, I've thought about it."

Soon after I started studying with Teacher Isbella, I had already imagined my future. I wanted to paint for the stone house, I wanted to play the piano for the guests, I wanted to use pen and ink to record the beauty and ugliness in the world, like a literati, a painter, a musician, a high-flying bird, like greatness endowed with the color of snakeskin, like that eye-catching faceless clown.

"If it's Berlane, Ruan won't worry, but your sister is just as stupid as the Ruan girls."

Aunt Corvina sighed deeply, took a long puff of cigarette, exhaled white mist from her mouth, and said slowly: "Alas - has the world been peaceful for too long? Why does Mr. Ruan feel that the young people in our alliance seem to be getting worse with each generation? Not to mention that there are not many who can really fight, and even fewer who have brains. In another hundred years, can this city really be defended?"

As a member of the new generation, I could only whisper an apology: "I'm sorry..."

At this time, Aunt Corvina hugged my waist, her eyes curved into crescents, "Blanny, what are you saying sorry for? You are on a different path from those idiots. You are an elegant and beautiful poster girl, and they are adventurers whose lives are worthless. There is no comparison between the two. Moreover, your growth is hundreds of times better than theirs. You can be described as outstanding!"

No matter how you listen to it, Aunt Covina's words are extremely biased. Among us, she only dotes on me in this way. This is probably because I have been too withdrawn and too worrying since I was a child, so I need her to show more love. For this, in addition to gratitude, I feel more ashamed and reflective - that immature child was actually the willful me.

I fell silent because of her excessive praise.

We walked a long way in silence, and my eyes no longer had the mood to appreciate the scenery.

But even my mood at the moment was seen by Aunt Covina.

Suddenly, she smiled like Doris, and said to me as if presenting a treasure: "Little Berlane, I suddenly remembered something. There should be a good place in our snake house that you sisters have not visited yet."

Good place for a snake house?

A great place that my sister and I didn’t know about?

Hearing Aunt Covina's mysterious tone, my heart was immediately filled with curiosity and doubts.

"Want to know?"

She sniffed my nose like she did when she was a child and said with a smile, "This is a secret place that Ruan has kept for a long time. Even Doris may not have discovered this place. So, you can let Ruan take you there, but you must remember to keep this secret for Ruan. You cannot tell anyone else, not even your sister Meng'er."

"Why can't you tell others?"

I didn't ask this stupid question.

Because everything Aunt Covina says and does is carefully considered.

If I needed to know, she would tell me.

As long as you follow her instructions, things will go smoothly.

As far as I can remember, the only thing Aunt Covina misjudged was the life and death of our Stone House. I remember that at that time, she said a lot of unpleasant things to my sister in order to let her put down the burden of the guild as soon as possible. Because of this reason, my sister has hated Aunt Covina for more than two years. Today's gathering was probably arranged by my sister to take the initiative to repair the relationship between the two parties.

"Well, I'll keep it a secret."

After I agreed to my aunt's request, she took my hand and led me outside the mansion. We passed through the wall and with the help of natural magic, we passed through a forest full of thorns. Finally, we walked into a cave. The cave led to an exit with light. Looking at this exit, I was surprised to think of a classic I had read earlier.

I was surprised because the first thing that came to my mind was not Peach Blossom Spring...

The first thing that came to my mind was a passage from the Church of Light...

“Enter through the narrow gate—”

“For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it;”

“Short is the gate and constricted is the way that leads to life, and few are there who find it.”

What’s even more mysterious is that when we passed through the exit of the cave, Aunt Corvina whispered something similar in my ear.

"We must go through the narrow gate, because the gate that leads to destruction is safe, and those who enter must die. But the gate that leads to true eternity is narrow, and the road is full of thorns. Many people find it, but those who dare to try are even fewer than those who succeed."

What Aunt Corvina was talking about was exactly the declaration of freedom made by Queen Constantina when she abandoned the goddess of life and death. Behind the exit of the cave was a mini canyon surrounded by rocks. There was a small frozen lake in the canyon. There was a protruding hill in the lake. In the hill stood a big tree with blue leaves. Under the tree was a tombstone, a pure white tombstone without a name.

"here it is……"

“The resting place of the great.”

"!!!"

Aunt Corvina didn't say anything explicitly, and I was so shocked that I had to pretend that I didn't understand any metaphor.

In order not to disturb the noble deceased, I just stood quietly at the entrance of the cave and admired her nobleness after death.

Although I have only seen her name and portrait in history books, but...

After actually seeing her grave, I felt a different feeling in my heart.

"I never thought that after the death of a great king, he would be like this - cold and aloof."

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54. Heaven and Earth Cloud Mud (Blannie)