Chapter 47: The Eve of the Ceremony (Part I)
Vorent really kept his promise to open the library of the snow castle for Su Wen, so these days, whenever Su Wen is free, he will soak between the bookshelves and rub the knowledge recorded on it into his mind.
Almost completely isolated, Marlena was personally instructed by Warrent to make the final preparations for the ceremony three days later.
Kyle's affair seems to be a wake-up call for other people with ulterior motives, who have been quiet as chickens these days, but they are also tacitly examining their positions. Even the ordinary maids in the snow castle felt the change in the atmosphere in the castle.
Su Wen told Ellie about the necklace the next day, and Ellie didn't have time to feel sorry for the necklace while she was surprised, and she pestered Su Wen all morning to ask this and that, and broke out as a woman's gossip nature.
After that, Ellie was bored, so she followed Su Wen's buttocks, flipped through a few illustrated books in the stack, and simply slept under the quilt after a day, and hardly went out of the room except for eating.
Thanks to Snow Castle's rich library, Su Wen figured out a lot of things.
For example, the Tower of Oblivion, where he was locked up.
Such towers exist in many parts of the Malenor Empire, and seem to be relics of antiquity, most of which are located in the wilderness and occupied by monsters.
There are many legends about the Tower of Forgetting, and even scholars who specialize in the Tower of Forgetting cannot tell whether it is true or false. Ellie's original motivation was probably due to some legendary story.
It's so simple.
In addition, Su Wen finally knew what the insect-shaped monster was entrenched on the ceiling of the top floor of the tower.
The monster that is used as the material for Ellie's body has no official scientific name, but it is called the "cave worm" by most adventurers, and as the name suggests, it is a demon worm that lives in a cave.
This monster is lazy by nature, preys on tentacles and barbed hooks, and is powerful, mainly good at sneak attacks, its toxin structure is complex, poisonous and extremely valuable. There are only a handful of records of cave worms being hunted, and the few that have been hunted are rated from the first order of diamonds to the fifth order of diamonds, that is to say, the current Ellie is at least a strong person with the strength of the first order of diamonds.
Therefore, Su Wen's subconscious is to make Ellie a person who can master this power, rather than letting this powerful power swallow Ellie's nature.
Combining some history books with the memories in his head, Su Wen found a very serious problem.
He seems to have been asleep for more than a thousand years......
With such a long time span, even Su Wen couldn't help but feel a trace of fear. Along with this sense of fear comes the desire to explore that blank memory.
Ellie's got the necklace, and it didn't seem to be a coincidence, according to Ellie's words, it was the aura on it that made her feel familiar. And this kind of breath, even Su Wen himself can't sense it, it is probably a talent that Ellie inherited from the cave worm and is sensitive to breath.
The night before the ceremony, Su Wen, who was about to go to bed, was knocked on the door by Marina.
“...... Can you walk with me?"
Su Wen didn't show any strange expression, but Marlena still explained in a whisper: "I knocked on Ellie's door...... But she didn't answer me......"
"I'll knock it for you. ”
......
So Su Wen came to the door of Ellie's room, and with a slight twist, he opened the door of the room. Of course, Marlena didn't know that Su Wen silently used the lockpicking technique, and checked the door lock in surprise.
"Ellie. Su Wen pinched Ellie's face and shouted.
"Ah!!h
Su Wen felt like he had disturbed a Witch, and hurriedly raised his hand to defend against Ellie's instinctive counterattack.
Feeling that her counterattack didn't work, Ellie simply stopped attacking, turned over, and then buried the whole person in the quilt, facing Su Wen in a defensive posture.
Seeing that this was the case, Marlena pulled Lasu Wen and signaled that she didn't need to disturb Ellie anymore.
So the two of them retreated from Ellie's room, and Su Wen easily locked the door again.
"Two more shouts should be up. ”
"No...... No, just let her sleep......"
After all, it is the characteristic of cave worms.
Before the ceremony, Marlena was limited by Warrent, and the only breathable place was a rooftop. What Marlena brought Su Wen to was this rooftop.
From the rooftop, you can see the lights of Snow Castle.
Ma Lina's face was obviously a little tired, and the high-intensity knowledge indoctrination like cramming made this girl's mental state very fragile, and it was very necessary to come out to breathe.
Tomorrow is the date for the ceremony, when Warrent will officially announce to the members of the Snow Castle family that his eldest daughter, Marlena, the Duke of Snow Castle, has returned to the castle and will appear before the family members as one of the possible heirs to the title.
"If it weren't for Su Wenxian...... Su heard your words, I was probably dead. So, thank you so much. ”
"Didn't you already say thank you?"
"Hmm. It was not the first time that Ma Lina was choked by Su Wen's honest answer, but she still didn't get used to this sudden embarrassment: "It's just that I'm a little nervous." ”
Su Wen watched as Marlena brushed her windswept blonde hair back and waited for her next step.
"Tomorrow, I will meet the murderers who forced my mother to death in the first place, and the brothers and sisters who have never been masked and don't know what they are thinking. And then to behave casually in front of them as a good aristocratic lady......"
"Actually, I ...... My father only seems to have a sense of debt to me, and even this debt even belongs to half of my mother's. Compared with godfathers and godmothers, there are too many differences, and I also know that this is the so-called aristocratic feelings. In such a family, blood and talent are equally important...... Rosen is only twenty years old, and he is a gold-level warrior, and Barot is also a top student of the Imperial Academy, so they will probably reject me?......"
Marlena gushed endlessly, pouring out all the stress and thoughts that had accumulated over the past few days. These things, Ellie still doesn't quite understand, in this castle, only Su Wen is the object of her confiding.
"Although I was full of confidence before, I always felt a little tired when I actually got here. ”
Su Wen understands Marina's mentality, for example, before he crossed over, he was suddenly promoted to the supercomputer maintenance department as an ordinary programmer, which also made him both excited and self-doubting.
"What kind of confidence do you want?" asked Su Wen.
"Huh?"
"If you were to talk about eloquence and wisdom alone, would you not lose to any of them? What are you worried about about the aura of your brothers and sisters? The power of those people? Or the class that you fear and hate?"
Ma Lina listened to it in her ears, thought about it for a while, and felt that what Su Wen said still made some sense. It's just that she doesn't have the confidence to lose to any of them.
Su Wen looked at Marina's eyes and raised her right hand above her head.
Ma Lina was puzzled by Su Wen's movements, but in the next second, she saw the most shocking scene in her life.
A white light bloomed from Su Wen's hand, and the huge pillar of light soared upwards into the sky. The air wave whipped up the dust around her, ruffling Marina's hair once more.
Pillars of light filled with great magic filled the night sky, almost turning the night into day. The dense clouds were also dispersed by the pillar of light, spreading out in a radial pattern.
The pillar of light lasted only a few seconds, but it ignited the tranquil snow castle.
"Can this thing be your faith?"
Su Wen put down his hand and asked Marina softly.
Marlena stood for two seconds, nodding slowly amid the noise that was gradually ringing around her.