Chapter 20: Like a Mother
Carette finished her lunch before Demos and Cali, and returned to the dormitory with Ade.
As soon as she was gone, Demos pressed the glass of wine to the table with a look of displeasure.
"Why bother, we just came back, and you deliberately upset everyone. ”
Hearing him complain, Cali raised his eyebrows, narrowed his amethyst eyes and smiled:
"It's not that you can't get along in the human world before you think of coming back......"
"Sister, if you think Kareta and I are an eyesore, I can take her away in two days!"
Cali's stunning face finally showed a hint of panic. She flattened her lips, showing a rare resentment on weekdays, and refuted Demos in a tone that sounded aggrieved and sour:
"Did I say you two are an eyesore? This temple is yours, and she is the woman you insist on marrying, what can I say? I am nothing but your courtier, your slave. In your eyes, my dedication to you and to the Dark Clan is all wishful thinking!"
Demos reluctantly held out a hand and waved it at her, motioning for her to stop.
He knew in his heart that if it weren't for the reporter's trouble, he would never have made the decision to take Carreta back to the Dark Temple. When he returned, Cali would either preach at length or babble like a resentful woman, and he would listen to him every time.
"Sister, I know I owe you. Don't worry, I will definitely repay you if I have the opportunity. ”
"You want to repay?"
Cali suddenly grew energetic, and seemed to catch the omission in Demos's words. One side of the long eyebrows was raised, and she smiled sinisterly:
"Yes, if you really want to repay me, let Kareta unlock the jewel crystal ball at once!
Demos was beaten hard by this goddess, and then he shut up, and his handsome face sank like water.
Standing up from his chair resolutely, he pressed a pair of cold, sharp eyes straight at the smug Cali, and stopped talking.
At another moment, Demos left Cali and walked away.
Sitting alone at the dinner table, Cali smiled coldly.
Shrouded in the flickering light of the candle flame, her ivory complexion looked more like an aged wax figure in an eerie castle.
His gaze panned, and finally landed on the empty sub-main dining station opposite. Cali gritted his silver teeth fiercely, his gaze even more vicious.
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In the dormitory, Carette sat at the dresser.
Behind her stood the lady-in-waiting, Ade, who was removing the crown of jewels pinned to her blonde hair.
Adele worked hard as she looked at Kareta in the make-up mirror. After a little thought, she finally spoke up and comforted:
"Princess, you don't have to worry about the words of the goddess Kali. She was born like that. Besides, if a woman stays in the same place for a long time and doesn't go anywhere, no matter how good her personality is, she will slowly change her badness. ”
Adele is indeed a competent maid in charge, not only has a very careful mind, but also is very good at observing words and feelings.
She had been waiting in the dining room, and she could hear what Cali was saying to her mistress.
And it's no wonder.
Kali has always been arrogant, and in the past and present lives of the dimension, she is the only goddess who can rule over the attendants of the Dark Clan.
Although the Dark Gods had always called her "sister" for so many years, her commanding and magical appearance made her think of her as the mistress of the Dark Temple in the early days.
Now, the god of darkness has suddenly brought back another girl from the outside world who is as delicate and beautiful as a hibiscus in Shimizu, and as soon as she comes up, she has arranged her seat in the vice-chair, and anyone can imagine how bad the haughty goddess Cali must be.
Now, treating the enemy with just words is indeed the lightest punishment for the goddess of blood.
At this moment, Adele saw that her mistress became silent as soon as she returned to the dormitory, and guessed in her heart that she must be angry with Cali's disrespect.
Adele guessed right.
The reason why Kareta was depressed at this time was indeed because of Kali. However, she was not angry in her heart, but more frustrated and unwilling.
Demos had said with certainty that she could be on her own.
But when she faced Cali, and faced with the momentum of the battle that she was above herself, her reaction was actually very stupid.
At that time, the calm smile on his face was completely a decent disguise, but in fact, he was at a loss in his heart, and he couldn't show the courage and courage to cover the sky with a wave of his hand when dealing with those crazy reporters in the human world.
Perhaps, I have subconsciously identified Kali's qualifications for the theory of momentum, and I am more like the hostess of this metaverse than myself-
"Ade, Cali... From the gods... Are you going to follow the dark god all the time?"
Rescuing her thoughts, Carette whispered to the maid in charge. At the same time, she looked at herself in the mirror with a blank look.
The mirror will never lie, it will always only give back the truest picture. At this moment, a humble and nervous face is reflected in this mirror, and that is himself!
"Ahh ”
Adele replied, taking an ivory hairbrush in her hand and straightening Kareta's thick hair for a moment.
"Ade's last life was a god generation thousands of years ago. When the king left the holy mountain, he had only the goddess Kali by his side. At the beginning of the dimensional placement, she did help a lot. Projects such as the construction of the temple, the construction of the dimensional defense barrier, and the diversion of the water of the Styx River cannot be endured by the king's divine power source alone. The king of this life has a human identity, and he is mostly busy with his career in the human world, and the temple is almost the goddess Kali taking care of the top and bottom ......"
Adele explained to Carreta while she was busy working, and her blue eyes glanced at Karet's face in the mirror from time to time.
Karete's expression remained calm.
With her hair combed, Adele put the comb back in the wooden lattice drawer on the dresser. When I looked back, I saw that the hostess was still sitting upright, as if she was in a trance, but it didn't seem to be.
Adele showed a slightly troubled look on her face, and said secretly in her heart:
Not good –
Women are born with a kind of "careful eye", and they are good at fighting when they get together.
She believed that the princess in front of her was not stupid, and she must be able to perceive the extremely delicate relationship between the dark god and Kali.
Adele thought about it, leaned down slightly to approach Karet, and said with a smile:
"Princess, you don't have to worry. The king and the goddess Kali have always respected each other as if they were guests, and the two of them are nothing more than partners. For the king, he revered the pride of the goddess Kali, and regarded her as ... Mother, yes, that's the Holy Mother!"
"Mother?"
Kareta repeated Ade's words in confusion, feeling that her explanation was simply awkward, and hurriedly turned her head to look at her.
This action immediately taught the careful boss to look even more ugly, and he looked very frightened.
It dawned on Kareta when she noticed that the poor girl's forehead was already a fine speck of sweat.
It turned out that she had been thinking about her master, and all her unremitting efforts were just to relieve her master and make her feel at ease.
"Thank you, Ade, I'm really fine. It's hard for you!"
Kareta smiled at the boss with relief.
"I'm telling the truth, Princess. ”
Adele explained again, one hand raised unnaturally, and quickly wiped her forehead.
"Okay, let's go for a walk, I'm not sleepy. ”
Perhaps touched by the sincerity of the boss, Carette's mood improved slightly.
She stood up and patted the girl on the shoulder.
"Ahh And the king is coming. ”
"Let's go!"
Kareta said heartily, walking in front with her long, straight blonde hair.
"Princess... Wait Ade!"
Seeing that she couldn't stop her, Adele hurriedly grabbed a cloak and took it in her hand and chased her out.
Caret is accompanied by her lady-in-waiting, Ade, to the highest point of the Dark Temple, the sacrificial terrace.
This place is located on the top of the sixth floor of the side hall on the east side of the Dark Temple, and it is the only place in the entire temple that is not blocked by a gate, but is directly connected to the dimensional space.
Stepping out of the 100-meter-high stone arch is the terrace area.
In the Divine Dynasty, the Titan gods attached great importance to the sacrifices of large and small festivals. On the day of the festival, the gods will hold the corresponding rituals in strict accordance with the corresponding auspicious time.
The "sacrificial terrace" of the Dark Temple, as the name suggests, is the place where Demos leads the Dark Clan attendants to hold the clan ritual.
This is a stone platform with a width of 1,000 square meters, which is made of blocks of gray marble bricks.
Outside the terrace, the stone arch of the passage leading to the Dark Temple is lined with a giant long-necked pterosaur statue, with sharp teeth and ringed eyes and claws, which is the sacred beast guarding the terrace.
Directly opposite the arch, on the edge of the terrace stood a pair of carved marble pillars, of unknown height.
Because the light emitted by the candles in the temple was limited in brightness, it could only illuminate the lower half of the stone pillars, while the towering upper half stretched out somewhere, as if it had disappeared into the infinite dimensional darkness.
"Princess, don't go forward, watch your step!"
Passing through the stone arch connecting the passageway, Adele stopped next to the stone statue of the sacred beast on the right side of the stone arch. Seeing that Kareta hadn't stopped yet, she hurriedly reminded her.
The princess was new to the city, and she was not yet fully familiar with the environment of the Dark Temple.
The place was dimly lit, and she was afraid that her master would step out of the boundary of the terrace and stumble into dimensional space.
Although the princess is of divine blood, she will definitely be able to exert her ability to establish herself in that void floating space. But the responsibility for the misstep is naturally borne by her, the subordinate!
"It's okay, wait for me over there. ”
Without looking back, Kareta finished speaking to the maid, stopping ten meters away from her.
Raising her head slightly, she looked at the vast dimensional space-time.
Another dimension is the opposite of a mirror!
Faced with the infinite darkness of color, Kareta has such a poignant feeling about this mysterious space.
If the world of Olympus Sacred Mountain is glamorous, and the sea world of Aquaman is rich and splendid, then those pictures are the colors displayed on the front of the mirror, and they can bring people joy.
However, the other dimension is the opposite world of mirror loneliness. There is no source, there is no end, it will always be dull compared with the colorful and colorful on the front, and all that is presented to people is eternal sentimentality!
At this point, Kareta felt as if the dark color had life, and it was looking at herself that she was looking at herself. Gradually, his body seemed to have merged with it......
There was a strange sound of dimensional wind in my ears, whimpering like a bitter howl, like a terrible cry for help from people in great distress.
The cold wind grew stronger and stronger, like a sharp knife scraping against Karete's delicate face, teaching her to breathless. The gale swept past her, mercilessly rolling over her glass gauze skirt, which was now so thin.