In fact, regardless of all the facial features, this statue is still seven points similar to Kevin. But from the corners of the eyes and eyebrows to the curvature of the lips, every edge and corner has been polished to a little gentle, and in addition to the holiness in the slightly bowed posture, it also reveals a sense of compassion for the world, which is too different from Kevin's usual angular and under-fought temperament.

When you're really standing face to face, there's absolutely no way to connect the two.

It's not the first time Kevin has seen a mild version of himself, it's just that the last time he looked at it like this was thousands of years ago......

"Who is this drawing?" Standing by the Sacred Lake of Ana, the god of light, Fae shook it with a thin piece of paper between his fingers, and said to Tennis, "It looks pretty good, but I don't seem to have seen it." ”

The sheet of paper depicts a young man with a slight bow, his short black hair, his lowered eyebrows, and a faint smile at the corners of his mouth.

Tenice was originally pinching a bunch of bright red sweet fruits to feed her baby unicorn deer, but when she heard Fae's words, she immediately rolled her eyes, slapped the deer's buttocks, and said, "I've been painting for so long, can't you see that this is you?" ”

The one-horned deer was slapped by her slap and ran away, and went straight to Fae with a fierce momentum, hitting him by surprise, and the antlers just pressed against his ribs, which made the god of light angry.

He was seriously injured and didn't forget to look for a fight, squinted his eyes and took the qin leaf paper a little farther away, as if he was blind, and looked at it for a while, and said: "I'm sorry, this little white face is very different from me, you at least painted me fat." ”

Tenice snatched the paper from his hand and said angrily, "This is called gentleness!" I'm just fixing the edges and corners for you so it looks easier to get closer. ”

Fallae: "My dear sister, are you painting a portrait or changing your face?" ”

Tannis twisted out a blank piece of paper, slapped him on the chest, and said, "Okay, you have the final say, you can draw a template for me." ”

Without saying a word, Fae drew a hard weatpen, sandwiched the leaf paper on a drawing board made of hawthorn wood, put one hand behind his back, and held the pen in the other, and sketched on the paper in style. Not to mention, the posture is elegant and chic, and it looks like that.

Thenice happened to be standing on the back of the canvas, glanced at him, and went on to feed the deer with the remaining sweet fruit in his hand.

When she filled the last bright red sweet fruit into the deer's mouth, Fae also happened to put away the hard quill pen, raised her chin and said, "Okay." ”

"So fast? I'll see—" Tenice sent the unicorn deer to play and turned to the front of the drawingboard.

I saw that the fine piece of piano leaf paper was painted with a beastly face uglier than a ghost, and the cheeks on both sides were deeply sunken because of the shadows he played indiscriminately, the eyes were large and small and not symmetrical, and the hair was even more messy than a bird's nest......

"Your painting is either too deeply poisoned or overindulged, and you have a face that I don't like to draw! Also, where did you get your mopping beard? Tenes asked him with a slumped face.

Phae rambled nonchalantly: "I think Phisa's beard can make a man graceful and wise, and I intend to keep it like that from tomorrow onwards." ”

Tenice withdrew the sheet of paper with a blank face, and raised her hand to point to the top of the mountain to the north: "Follow your eight great pillars and go back to your temple of light." "In a nutshell: roll.

The handsome god of light rolled gracefully, leaving only a tall, thin back.

Many, many years later, one early summer afternoon, Tenice returned from her wanderings with a little boy who was no taller than her thighs.

The cub has charcoal-like black hair, slightly curly, well-behaved and soft. Because of his thinness, his dark eyes were extraordinarily large, as bright as prehnite.

"Where did this little thing come from?" Fissar asked, pulling his beard.

He was the elder brother of Tenice and Phae. In fact, in terms of appearance alone, he was not much older than the other two main gods, but because of his long beard, he looked a long older than the Phae, and prematurely showed signs of kindness.

It's a pity that the light is useless, and the little boy seems to be particularly afraid of life. He was dressed in a loose little white robe, and he hid behind her with Tenis's long skirt, revealing only half of his face.

"I gave birth." Tenes replied with a grin.

Fei Sa's hands trembled, and he almost pulled his beard bald: "With whom?" Where is it? When? ”

Tenice tilted her head, "Guess? ”

Before Phaesar could speak, Fae, who was leaning against the tree, had already lazily spoken: "Moya, the god of wine? It's not too dark for him, and he can't give birth to such a dazzling one. Uno, the god of wind? It's not right, he has short legs, and the proportions are too different. River god Man'er? Not to mention, he-"

"If you talk nonsense, I'll tear down your temple." Tenice interrupted him unbearably.

Let this bastard keep talking, tomorrow the other little gods will come to rebel and bomb his nest.

"Don't guess again?" Fae asked with a smile or not.

Tenes said angrily, "Don't guess! This little thing is not born, but I made it. When I passed through the Suta Plains, the long vines were blooming just right, so I made this little thing out of the leaves of the long vines and the wooden thorns underneath. It just so happens that the winter at Anasanki Lake is too cold, and it can be more lively with him. ”

Phae: "...... Are you sure? "This little cub hasn't said a word for a long time, and it can't match the excitement at all, okay?

Tenice glanced at him with a complicated expression, then at the little boy behind him, and said with some melancholy: "I made him after you were a child, you used to be well-behaved and shy, why is this the case when you grow up?" ”

Fae stared at the little cub silently for a moment, and couldn't help but say again: "...... Are you sure?! ”

Fissar nodded in agreement: "No wonder, I said who you are looking for to give birth to such a copy, except for Phae's hair is not curly, the others are exactly the same." ”

"I named him Merlot." Tenice said.

Merlot grew very slowly, he had lived in Anasanki Lake for many years, but he still looked like a little boy, the only change was probably that he was not so afraid of life, but he was still easily shy.

Farel's long legs have become his natural measuring stick, and every time they meet, as long as they stand side by side, Farger will stretch out his fingers, pinch out the extremely small distance, and say to little Merlot: "It's a pity that you have only grown so much this year." At this rate, another thousand years can barely reach my jaw. ”

Tenice would always pull Merlot away, and said angrily: "Yes, you are so tall that you can stab the sky." ”

Phila and Theenis had always loved children, and they could not resist such soft and weak creatures, otherwise they would not have created so many bean-jumping people to satisfy their overflowing love.

At that time, Fae always felt that he was cold and indifferent, and he didn't know if it was because he had the godhead of the god of war.

His little patience and almost non-existent love are not enough to cope with these little things. The well-behaved ones are too weak, the naughty ones are too noisy, in short, they are all troublesome.

So whenever he saw Merlot, he would only tease briefly for a while, and then he handed it over to Phaesar and Tenice, and withdrew to the side.

It wasn't until Merlot's size finally reached his waist and he no longer looked like he was "pinching and breaking", that he began to slowly teach Mellot some of the most practical combat techniques. After all, although this little boy lived a long and slow life, he did not attain Godhead. In case of an accident one day, you can't save your life if you don't learn a little.

In their long relationship, Merlot seemed to be both afraid and respectful of the bastard Phae.

According to Phaesar and Tenice's private analysis-

I'm afraid it's because Faerita is hot on the outside and cold on the inside. Although it looks elegant and lazy, and a little bit of a mouthful, it is actually not easy to really get close to others, let alone get close to the heart and lungs.

Jing is because what Fae taught him is really useful things, quite a bit of a strict teacher's demeanor.

Thenice loved to draw, and Merlot, who had been with her for many years, was probably influenced by it and developed a hobby in this area, although he was more interested in carving. For a long time, when Fae went to the sacred lake of Ana, he could always see this large and small sitting under a tree, one holding a drawing board and the other holding a stone and a carving knife.

Merlot's first gift to Phae was a candelabra-high statue.

Still looking thin and shy, he ran to Phae with a stone sculpture in his arms to offer his treasure.

Fae didn't even see who the statue was carved at first, it was to be replaced by Tenice or Phisa, he had already opened his mouth and lost it, but his rare bit of conscience made him swallow back the words he owed, and he didn't shamelessly even lose a child. So he pinched the statue and blindly boasted: "The technique is skillful, the lines are smooth, and the carving is good." ”

Merlot looked plattered: "Really? Is it carved like you? ”

Phae: "......" me again?

After being reminded of this, he finally remembered the great work of Tenice many, many years ago, and when he thought about it, the statue of Merlot was really carved according to that painting, and even the expression was the same, but it was a little rough.

Fae silently twisted his head, coughed, adjusted his expression, and then silently turned his head, hooked the corners of his mouth and said: "At first glance, you can know that it is me, very similar." "A ghost.

Little Melo ran away satisfied.

Later, the boy grew up a little faster, and the carving really got better and better, just like Phager had boasted about before with a clear conscience. He later sent several larger, more elaborate statues to Phaeus, but he stubbornly followed the template that Tenice had drawn.

So much so that for a while, there was a "mild version" of the statue of the god of light in the temple of Fae from childhood to adulthood, and Fae was very painful to see......

These fragments of the past slowly disappeared for a long time, and then millennia and millennia......

Kevin stood in front of the huge statue and met its lowered eyebrows in silence, thinking to himself: Tenice and Phissar are dead, dead for many years, maybe still sleeping, maybe they have been reborn as some ordinary and ordinary people. The Sacred Lake of Ana has turned into a shallow puddle, the high mountain where the Temple of Light is located has risen and fallen several times, and has broken into a huge rift, and the eight giant pillars in front of the temple are now called the Divine Road, and there is actually a new palace built on it, which is quite interesting......

It's just that when he first got that small statue thousands of years ago, he never imagined that one day, such a gentle statue would be erected in his own cemetery.

Just when he had a rare feeling of melancholy, he faintly heard a long noise from outside the temple, as if something huge was coming in the wind.

Fae looked back in amazement: "......" can you come in?!