The brilliant lights reflected the night of the Lion City so brightly, and the bright silver moon hung high in the sky, but it was eclipsed by the bright lights.

Even the proud goddess Diana can't take away the brilliance from the ground, because tonight's Lion City is a world of joy for mortals.

Because tonight, no, this morning, to be exact, is the day of the start of the annual Water Curtain Festival.

Legend has it that as early as the beginning of the mythological age, mortals lived ignorant in the beautiful land of Parvatiga.

At that time, the mythical beasts of ancient times roamed the ground, their heavy footsteps made the earth tremble, and the dragon that covered the sky soared into the sky, and the clear dragon roared in all directions. Deadly elemental creatures wander in the extremes, condensing flames and frost with every step, and island-like creatures snort water jets and frolic in the vast oceans.

In the mythical age, Parvadiga was dangerous and terrifying, small mortals were fragile and pathetic, in the mountains and forests, in the caves of the ground, shivering and breathing, trying to survive by all means, but the powerless mortals could not fight against those strong creatures, they wept, they were helpless, they prayed to all things in the world, they prayed for a glimmer of hope for the continuation of the race.

Thus, the gods were born.

Relying on the beliefs of mortals, the personalities of the gods were born from the ontological body, and in response to the call of mortals, they brought hope of life to mortals.

On the earth, help mortals fight the giant beasts, so that the giant beasts have to retreat into the wilderness, in the sky, and make an agreement with the dragons, so that the dragons will no longer feed on humans, and no longer use human villages as toys to kill time. In the ocean, the innocent and gentle beasts of the deep sea accepted those small neighbors under the appeasement of the gods, the two sides shared the ocean, the elemental gods opened up the elemental plane, and the elemental creatures were ecstatic to spew out elemental energy and move into their new homes, completely forgetting about Pavadiga.

For these children, the gods continue to perform miracles and protect vulnerable mortals until the children are completely self-reliant, among them, the 30,000 square kilometers of water curtain is one of the most famous miracles of the mythological era.

In the east and south, waves of demonic beasts overwhelmed a large number of tribes, and in the face of fangs and claws, rudimentary stone axes and wooden sticks and animal skins on their bodies were obviously dwarfed and unmatched.

In order to let the children live, Wendy, the lord of lakes and rivers, sat in the depths of the holy lake for ten thousand years, unfolded the boundless water curtain to cover 30,000 square kilometers of land, for a full ten thousand years, no monster can step into the scope of the water curtain, with the grace of the goddess, all kinds of intelligent creatures in the east and south have a chance to breathe, carefully develop civilization, and finally win the qualification to continue in front of the monster.

The age of mythology has long passed, but the grace of the gods has not been forgotten, and the bloodlines that have emerged from the boundless water curtain have branched out all over the world, bringing gratitude to the goddess Wendy to every corner of Pavatiga.

Some scholars have verified that any force that explicitly establishes Miss Wendy, the god of water, as one of the official beliefs, must have a part of the high-level bloodline that can be traced back to the survivors of the Infinite Water Curtain in the Age of Mythology, although the evidence is not sufficient, but everyone is willing to believe that this is true, because the gratitude of mortals to Miss Wendy cannot tolerate the slightest falsehood.

The Emerald Empire is certainly no exception.

The first pioneer, the Knight Lionheart, was an upstart from East Pavatiga, a devout disciple of Wendy, the goddess of water, who was slapped head-on by the two helpless races of winged people and forest spirits, but he still founded the city under the emerald light, and also brought his faith in Wendy to the north.

With the continuous expansion of the empire's power, the spread of faith is also becoming more and more widespread, because of a series of unexpected circumstances, which eventually led to the church's temple, along with the holy lake itself, moved to the Lion City overnight, and the Water Curtain Festival, as the official festival of the water temple, naturally followed the church and moved the focus of the year to the Emerald Empire.

For the Emerald Empire, for the Lion City, it's a three-day grand celebration where everyone will be fully engaged and enjoy the three days of fun. The more devoted, the happier she is, the more she can show respect and gratitude to Wendy, because Wendy is gentle and loves these children, and the happiness of the children is her happiness.

On the eve of the Water Curtain Festival, no one sleeps.

The streets of the Lion City are full of lights, a festive atmosphere, those monotonous buildings, each of which has a bright crystal lamp, so that all the streets are as bright as day, and the roadside has been hung with colorful lanterns and silk flowers, making the boring Lion City extraordinarily colorful.

It's not yet eight o'clock, the street is empty, but the roadside is already full of people, the two or three hundred thousand residents of Lion City, as long as it is convenient to move, basically poured into the street, everyone carried stools with snacks, smiled to gather on the side of the road, just waiting for the most critical moment of the year to come. As for those children with excess energy, they are even more like crazy, in a more intense way than usual, venting inexhaustible happiness and energy, their parents are simply powerless to restrain them, well, every year after the Water Curtain Festival, there will be hundreds of cases of losing children, and fortunately, they can be found back later, so that the citizens have finally become accustomed to it, and when they see children who can't find a home at the Water Curtain Festival, they simply take them home for one night, and then send them to the city guard the next day, and by the way, take their children away from strangers, who if they haven't lost them a few times at the Water Curtain Festival when they are young, they are embarrassed to say that they grew up in Lion City。

The later the time, the more lively the streets, the more people gathered on the streets, and by waiting until eleven o'clock in the middle of the night, the meeting point of the two days, with the ringing of the bell representing the new day, the water curtain festival officially kicked off.

The first thing that appeared, and it was also the residents who waited on the side of the street, was the grand city-wide procession.

The purpose of the Water Curtain Festival is to commemorate the grace of the gods, and it is also to please the mother of the gods who protect everyone, so naturally let Wendy see everyone's happy life, so the parade is naturally as grand as possible, there is only one time in a year, waste is a little waste, and it can also promote the development of the city's economy, there is nothing bad.

First up was a spacious troika, with eight horses draped in pale blue ribbons, and their majestic iron hooves stepped on the stone slabs of the street with a crisp sound.

The carriage dragged by the body is not made of exquisite materials, but is made of the wood of the deciduous sworddragon tree common in the aristocratic area, which is on behalf of the children to dedicate their favorite local products to their mothers, of course, to use the things that grow in the city, but the carriage is extremely exquisitely made, the hollow pattern is fine and exquisite, quite a master's style, this is a masterpiece that took four months to complete by several master carpenters in the outer city, one every year, is carved by the masters themselves, each pattern condenses the painstaking efforts and respect of the masters.

There was no one in the carriage, only a small white jade statue standing on the seat, of course, it was the image of Lord Wendy, although this was not a real icon, but in the hearts of the believers, at this moment, the jade statue represented Lord Wendy to parade around the city and accept the worship of the believers. Therefore, wherever the carriage passed, the people bowed down, and even those who believed in it bowed down and offered reverence to the gods.

It was followed by two six-horse carriages, and around the former carriage, sixteen temple priests wearing the robes of water walked at the same speed as the carriage, and every few steps, they raised their hands and released a mist of water that sprinkled on the bodies of everyone around them.

There are no guards around the carriage in which the idol rides, which means that no one is qualified to walk with the gods, and only the royal hand of the carriage has this honor, and the priest behind him is naturally surrounded by the goddess and the mortal leader of the goddess, the Archbishop of the Water Temple.

Orlana always sat in the carriage and did not show up, and it was completely up to the sixteen priests around him to be responsible for swaying the divine grace to the believers, this is a personal work, although it is only the lowest level of divine magic, but the two-hour procession around the city is equivalent to using the divine magic for two hours in a row, and ordinary priests can't hold it up at all, so these priests are all high-level priests with status and status inside the temple, such as the stupid one inside, who is a fanatical believer who has had a common experience, Kelly, it seems that after a test, her status has also been significantly improved。

The other six-horse carriage, surrounded by elite warriors in battle armor and fully armed, guarded the carriage in the center, there is no doubt that this must belong to the Lionheart King Leon. It was the custom of Pavatiga to show humility to the divine power, so it is not surprising that in any similar event, the vehicles representing the imperial power would be ranked after those representing the clergy.

When the three carriages passed, the people on the side of the street put aside their previous seriousness and began to boil, because the next step was the point of the procession, a spontaneous procession of people from different groups to show themselves to the residents.

There are neatly lined up clowns walking through the streets with a burning arquebus, magicians who throw balls at each other and pretend to be acrobats, young girls who dance ugly and messy, old knights with gray hair and beard who insist on standing on the carriage in armor and smashing their swords against dragon models, singers singing (although they can't hear what they are singing at all), musicians playing instruments (amateurs must be amateurs, because they are hard to hear), craftsmen swaggering through the city with axes and saws (really dangerous, as evidenced by the swollen toes of one of them) , all kinds of people, can be seen in the procession around the city.

All of them, all of them are non-professionals, the level is miserable, but they are all extremely devoted, the celebration procession is for joy and festivity, there is no threshold, anyone can join, and even in the procession, you can see a few drunken dwarves with their shoulders on their backs, holding wine jugs high and shouting for Ofregan, oh, of course, in the end, this one was quickly dragged aside by the believers and beaten, negligible.

Wherever the procession passed, some of the spectators on the street chose other celebrations, but many more people followed the procession and joined the procession, all unprepared, just following the procession, most of them just giggling, but it was this purposeless and pure smile that was the best gift to the gods.

It took two hours to circumnavigate the city, not long or short, and soon, after completing the established distance, the carriage drove into the square in front of the palace and stopped in front of the newly built high platform.

Countless crowds had already gathered around the square, and in anticipation, the respected Archbishop Orlana pushed the car door and walked down.

Well, what's going on? Why is there another one? It's a rare scene.

In a surprised gaze, a little girl dressed in a black robe, holding the hand of Archbishop Orana, stepped out of the carriage in a dignified manner, and showed a holy smile to everyone.

Well, although the back is already soaked.