Chapter 30: The Self-Cultivation of Deacons
At the moment, far away on the other side of the empire.
Anne sat on the bench in the study, which was inseparable from her and Li Meng, and could nourish her soul, holding a book in her hand and frowning.
Li Meng was beside her, his head tilted, and he was leaning on the wide armrest of the bench, his head was up, and he was sleeping soundly. Spiegel, on the other hand, stood faithfully behind Anne as always, humbly and reservedly bowing his head, waiting for any order from his noble mistress!
“...... Lemon, are you asleep?"
Anne finally finished reading the chronicle about the northern kingdom in her hand, and she breathed a long sigh of relief, but found that Li Meng on the side had fallen asleep groggily at some point.
Anne tentatively poked Li Meng twice with her hand, and found that he was indeed not pretending to be asleep, and her brows gradually wrinkled - in the past few days, Li Meng has become more and more sleepy!
According to Anne's observations, Li Meng's soul fire, which was not very vigorous, has become weaker and weaker these days.
It was so faint that he would pass out at almost the slightest impact.
So, these days, Anne stayed by Limmon's side - she was really scared that Lemon would suddenly disappear like before, or ...... If you simply fall asleep, you will never wake up again......
“...... Spiegel, you can clean up all these things on the table. Anne whispered to Spiegel, apparently not wanting to wake Limon up.
"Yes, hostess. Spiegel nodded, and he came to his desk almost silently, and gathered up many of the things that Lemon had tossed in the book "Natural Enlightenment". Spiegel knew very well that once Lemon woke up and found that the experiments he had done had disappeared inexplicably, he would be very irritable...... But what does it matter?
All for the hostess!
Moreover, it is not for nothing that the hostess did this......
Spiegel inadvertently glanced at the sleeping Li Meng, and once again sighed in his heart about the luck of this little fellow of the Holy Clan.
After putting away the basins and bowls on the desk, the alchemical utensils that Anne had bought from the southern Carthaginians, and the "Enlightenment of Nature" that was still spread out and filled with notes in Limmond's immature handwriting, Spiegel returned to Anne as if she were her shadow......
Anne didn't care about Spiegel, or rather, she never considered a creature other than Lemon as a "human".
Since waking up on that day, she and Li Meng have both lived in the same world, where only each other exists.
Under the influence of fate, Li Meng's family, including his sister, brother, and father...... None of this seemed to matter to him anymore - he would never again sneak up on the watchtower of Blackbra Castle in his spare time (and now he doesn't have to work) like he used to be, and look out to the north there.
Because, in the past, Lemon had always insisted that his brother and father would come from the north to pick him up and return to the Holy Clan's territory with his sister Vera......
Oh, and now Lemon seems to have forgotten about his sister......
Thinking of this, Anne reached out and gently brushed Li Meng's sleeping cheek, and suddenly, Liz's nasty appearance appeared in her mind again.
Surprisingly, Anne's heart was not turbulent at all, she looked at the sleeping Li Meng and told herself......
"As long as Li Meng is here, I will not be afraid of anything...... Whether it's the elder sister or the god named Loki, who has malicious intentions towards Lemon. ”
The world is so complicated that Anne just wants to stay with Lemon forever......
......
Before she knew it, Anne was also asleep in a daze, probably because before she fell asleep, she was leaning sideways to see Li Meng's face in her sleep.
After falling asleep, Anne was half of her body pressed on Li Meng, her head happened to be pillowed in Li Meng's arms, and her hands were around his neck at some point.
Li Meng still maintained his previous sleeping position, and there was no sign of waking up because of the sudden awkwardness of a heavy object on his body.
Or rather, it was precisely because the person beside him was Anne that he could sleep so soundly and sleep so defenselessly......
Spieger, who was waiting on the side, saw the two little ones who were sleeping, and in the bloodthirsty bloody eyes, there was also a moment of warmth at this moment.
Because he was afraid of disturbing the rest of the hostess and Young Master Li Meng, Spiegel did not use his usual snap of his fingers, but came to the door in person, and quietly instructed the guards who were guarding the door to bring Master Li Meng's quilt from his room.
As for why they weren't allowed to go to the mistress's room, the reason was simple, Spiegel felt that they were unworthy, and besides, all the bloods, including his own range, were not worthy to enter the mistress's bedroom, let alone touch her belongings!
As for Limon ......
Well, this little guy has always been very talkative!
......
A few moments later, a guard of Mokawi returned with a very flat velvet blanket, and after handing the velvet blanket to Spieg in silence, he returned to his post without showing any respect for Spiegel.
Spieg didn't care, if it was during the time of Glia, these Blood Clan warriors who had been staying in the forbidden land of Mokawi would not have come out.
The reason why they returned to the mortal realm was nothing more than for their mistress, Encore.
Although the progenitor Encore is still in Annie's body...... But that doesn't detract from their respect for Anne!
Spiegel returned to Anne and Leemon's side, and placed the seemingly thick and airtight velvet blanket over the two little ones, with rather fancy ornamentation, but unusually light, and quietly admired their sleeping faces.
Probably due to the connection between the bloodlines, Spieg has a special affection for Annie, the little guy who hides the ancestor of Mokkawi in his body...... Loyal, loved, or something else? Spiegel couldn't tell.
But these feelings are based on respect and admiration.
This directly leads to the fact that Spiegel's feelings for Anne are even far beyond that of Gloa, who belongs to the same generation as him.
Gloya is very good, otherwise he would not have been chosen by the Presbyterian Council of Morkavi to inherit the title of the previous reclusive patriarch as the patriarch of Morkawi and become the Grand Duke of the Roman Empire.
The friendship between Spiegel and Geria stems from the fact that they were still human beings, traveling together on the continent - at a time when everyone wanted to be a hero...... Moreover, legendary heroes like Hercules and Porsius in Greek mythology!
It was impossible to become a god, and at that time, the new god, Yahweh, had not yet spread his faith in the mortal kingdom, and almost everyone believed that the gods were eternal...... Moreover, no one will become a new god......
This also led to the fact that Spiegel and Glia wanted to become legendary heroes at that time!
Imagine accomplishing tasks that would be almost impossible to do at the behest of the gods, and then leave your own legend on the continent for the bards to sing the praises of their exploits in taverns, opera houses, or arenas......
It was a fond memory......
It wasn't until later, until he and Gloya met their "father", their "father" was an inconspicuous Blood Count in the Morkavi Presbyterian Church, but despite being a Blood Count, his strength also touched the top of the human race - the legendary powerhouse!
The "father" taught him and Gloria many things, including a new understanding of the world and the gods......
And Spiegel and Glia also know why the "father" chose the two of them.
For no other reason, just because Glia's blood is a very rare blood.
His blood is mixed in the blood clan's body, which can make the blood clan completely restrain the aura on his body, so as to achieve the effect of concealment. And the object of concealment is naturally the Holy See, which is trying to control the world and has already shown signs of victory, and the new god behind it, Yahweh!
......
Spieg shook his head, swaying the little memories of him and Gloa out of his mind.
No matter how good his relationship with Geria was, it was only a human thing. In Spiegel's eyes, the position of the hostess always comes first (whether it is Annie or Encore).
And Glia is only ...... Bad luck, who let him provoke Anne?
But fortunately, he made Anne angry, so that he unconsciously began to awaken, and then the soul of the ancestor Encore appeared in her!
Thinking of this, Spiegel sighed silently, and he looked at Anne's eyes, which fluctuated slightly—that fluctuation was called struggle.
Spieg couldn't imagine what would happen to Anne when the progenitor called Encore was completely resurrected......
Miss Anne may make a compromise with the ancestor Encore on Li Meng.
But whatever will happen to Limon after the compromise, Anne will ...... Disappear!
......
Spiegel's eyes were filled with complexity, and he slowly turned around and filled the empty teapot on his desk with hot water again - who knows when the two little ones will wake up?
But even when they wake up, they must feel very hungry, and the time, either at night or ...... It's daytime.
Well, it's time to start preparing.
At the moment when the master sleeps, a qualified deacon (steward) cannot easily fall asleep (although vampires do not have to sleep).
A qualified deacon needs to be there for her master whenever she needs it!
And serving warm black tea for gargling to the master who has just woken up from sleep is the minimum that every deacon should do (non-human deacon).
In short, a qualified deacon should get rid of most of them before the master asks for them!
This is self-cultivation as a qualified deacon!