"teacher."
Sharon stopped nearly five or six meters away from the blond woman with red eyes, knelt down and bowed upright.
"How do you feel during this time?" the blond woman with red eyes asked with a gentle smile. This smile was too standard, making her look like a rag doll placed in the window, but there was an inexplicable feeling about it. Feeling weird.
"I'm too weak." Sharon replied without thinking.
"Strength does not just lie in strength. Magic is the science and art of changing things through one's own will. A strong enough will can often burst out with power beyond imagination." The woman with blond hair and red eyes looked helpless, but there was a look in her eyes. There is a calmness that is almost compassionate, but if you look closely, there seems to be a suppressed flame hidden deeper.
"But that's not what I'm asking."
"I want to ask you, what kind of person do you think Miss Boethiya, or Mr. Hashem is." The blond woman with red eyes said her question in a declarative tone.
Sharon thought quietly for a long time before speaking slowly.
"She is the complete opposite of us." Her words sounded a little solemn.
"The Yu Zui Cult is indeed completely opposite to us." The blond woman with red eyes sighed faintly.
Sharon looked at the blond woman with red eyes in confusion.
"You have never been to Loen, nor have you come into contact with anything related to the Yu Zui Cult," the woman with blond hair and red eyes said, "But a long time ago, the Yu Zui Cult also had activities in the Southern Continent."
"In the early days of the Fifth Age, when I first became a Beloved, there were still some members of the Remaining Sin Cult operating on the Southern Continent." The blonde-haired, red-eyed woman said with a hint of reminiscence, "At that time, I felt very It’s strange, some people are maintaining the rule of the Balam Empire, some are helping us overthrow the rule of the Balam Empire, and some are indifferent to our struggle and act in completely opposite ways, but they are all members of the Yu Zui Cult.”
“He answered my doubts.”
"For the people of the Yu Zui Cult, the pursuit of desire is the most important thing, and other things can be abandoned for them. To people outside of them, their behavior sometimes seems terrible and difficult. understand."
"From the moment I learned about their teachings, I knew we could never be companions with them."
"Sure enough, after the wave of resistance against the rule of the Balam Empire subsided, the completely opposite doctrines became the trigger for the conflict between us and them." The blonde-haired woman with red eyes softened her voice slightly, "At first, it was just one or two people. , but the situation quickly escalated."
Sharon opened her eyes slightly and looked at the blond woman with red eyes.
"Before it developed into a confrontation between sects, they took the initiative to retreat. I don't know where they went. I only know that they disappeared in the southern continent."
"The reason is very clear - for them, such a fight is completely meaningless and does not help realize their desires." The blond woman with red eyes said calmly, but the content of her words contained a little self-deprecation, "It's really ridiculous, obviously We advocate moderation.”
“For many years that followed, there was no sign of them in the Southern Continent until Russell reopened the shipping route between the North and South Continents.”
"They appeared with Loen's army, but just like before, they did not fully support the colonists."
"But there are differences from those years ago - they seem to be more desperate, act more gently most of the time, and choose to solve problems more with ordinary people's methods instead of extraordinary power, but sometimes their methods appear to be better than those in the early fifth era. It’s time to be more extreme.”
"They have not been active in the Southern Continent for long," the blond woman with red eyes said slowly. "Nearly 180 years ago, they withdrew from the Southern Continent due to their own internal problems, and most of their members no longer operate here."
"Do we still have contact with them?" Sharon asked aloud.
"Yes," the blond woman with red eyes affirmed, "but the focus of our contact after the navigation between the North and South continents is not on them."
There was a little doubt in Sharon's eyes.
The blond woman with red eyes smiled and looked at Sharon's fine hair on her temples. The fingers on her legs moved, but in the end she made no movement.
"It doesn't matter," she said, "you just need to know that the young lady now is an apostle of the Remaining Sin Order."
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Agnes walked down the stairs made of boulders.
The glow on the horizon is a little blood red, and the green in the shadow of the mountain looks extremely deep.
It seems that a unique celebration has just begun in the square below, of course it is just a unique celebration for the people of the Northern Continent.
Agnes saw people happily digging up the land beside the square, digging one after another, neatly surrounding the square.
Agnes saw people happily burying their dead children in the graves, along with all kinds of burial objects, such as bowls, flutes, incense burners, and even a puppy that had died not long ago. The bodies of those children seemed to have been processed and looked clean and tidy, but they still had varying degrees of signs of decay.
Agnes saw people tidying up everything, and then happily playing the piano and singing.
"Are we really living in this world?
"You won't live forever; it's just a short stay.
“Even jade will be crushed;
“Even gold is crushed;
“Even the feathers of the feathered serpent were torn to pieces.
"You won't live forever; it's just a short stay.*"
There were a few footsteps behind her, and Agnes retracted her gaze to the square below and looked back.
Sharon stopped in her tracks and looked at the square below.
"People in the Southern Continent have always believed that children who died in infancy cannot return to the underworld," she said softly. "They must pass specific rituals before they can be accepted into the underworld."
“It’s a joyful event for them and deserves a celebration.”
Agnes nodded and said softly: "It is indeed something worth celebrating."
"Such a celebration can only be held in a few cities." Sharon looked back down and stared at Agnes with her blue eyes.
"This is only possible in places that are not controlled by Intis, Loen, Feysac, and Feneport, and have not been affected by the wars between warlords."
"The place where I was born couldn't hold such a celebration." Sharon said calmly.
Agnes was speechless for a moment.
"The teacher wants to see you." Sharon looked at Agnes and said.
"I see."
Agnes nodded.
