Miss Witch doesn't want to be a diva

The big clock in the meeting hall rang. This newly completed clock tower is now a benchmark in the city. Many people adjust their clocks and schedules according to the scale of the clock tower.

"Then today's meeting ends here."

The foxtail woman who presided over the meeting stood up, and then everyone stood up one after another, bowed to the girl sitting under the giant clock face, and then left.

The polished stone wall was a delicate blue-blue color, with smooth copper pointers on it, one large and one small, twisting like a hook, but the end was as straight and sharp as a sword. The sun is also a clock, time and history. The golden burning edge sets off its power. It is located in the middle of the pattern. The clock face is inlaid with twinkling silver stars. They each have interlaced tracks, crossing the clock ground, as if shuttling between the stars, and these tracks are coated with gradient silver powder, so that they reflect flowing colors under the light.

Overall, there are about seven or eight meteors of different sizes carrying brilliant and interlaced trajectories, passing through the clock and rushing to the far left corner, while the slightly dim golden branding pattern on the clock dial seems like a burning sun.

The metallic colors of copper and silver have a certain steam retro meaning, but their well-defined edges and three-dimensional structures make them more impactful than flat patterns.

Although the Star-Chasing Covenant is still a small organization, the great vision and ideals of the founder can be seen from this artistic logo, especially the several silver stars passing through the clock dial, which seem to have the stunning beauty of tearing the sun.

When everyone left one after another, the figure sitting under the huge clock dial did not stand up. Today, Tilan wore a solemn black dress, and only the pattern on the cuffs had a little round lace to make her style not too cold and dark.

"Your Highness Heshia, someone wants to see you." A clerk of the Heshan Rescue Association came forward and asked in a low voice.

"Since they are here to consult me, they must be special." If ordinary people wanted to see her, they would have been stopped long ago, because her time and energy are limited, and many small matters will be directly handled by the staff below.

"Yes, one of them is a very famous figure in the Gray Feather Clan, they call him 'Gray Cape Scholar', and the other brought a letter of introduction from the Butterfly Eye Clan, who is said to be the descendant of a sage from the far north." The recorder answered.

"Did the two come together?" Tilan was curious.

"Yes."

"Is that so? Let them come." It just so happened that she was free at this time, and she was also curious about why the 'Gray Cape Scholar' who had always refused to show up chose to take the initiative to ask for an interview this time.

When the Stone Forest Fort fell last year, even at the last moment, he did not show up, but asked his Gray Feather Clan to pass on the message on his behalf.

A few minutes later, the door of the meeting hall opened again, and two figures stepped into the quiet and solemn hall. There was no scene full of various guards as they imagined, it would be better to say that this would seem a little too quiet and empty.

At 10 o'clock in the morning, the sun shone through the small glass window and slanted into the hall. The light could not completely fill the place. When walking through the aisle in the middle of the hall, you could still feel the significant changes in light and dark. The floor was divided and mottled by the light. The girl sitting under the tall chair seemed to be half hidden in the shadow. Only the ground in front of her, which was several steps higher, reflected the glittering colors in the sun.

The two came to the open space in front of the steps and stopped. Even with the dazzling interference of the sun on one side, they could slowly see the girl sitting under the high chair of the throne.

For the two people who saw Heshia for the first time, the girl seemed to have a face that was too young. The bright white cheeks seemed to have some green hair in the reflection of the light. The slender fingers were only partially exposed from the wide cuffs. It was hard to imagine that such fingers could hold the sword that killed the wolf-blood queen. The only thing that made the two feel more at ease was the quiet and dark long hair, which seemed to tell a long history and some kind of cold truth.

The two men bowed and saluted the girl, then raised their heads and began to explain their purpose.

"Your Highness Heshia, my name is Lindsay, and I come from the far northern frozen land," the red-brown-haired man put one hand on his chest and stretched out the other hand to introduce himself.

According to the letter of introduction just handed over, Tilan knew that this purple-clothed woman and the one she rescued by the Wolf Blood King were both apprentices of the previous generation of "sages".

The girl nodded slightly, and then turned her eyes to the healthy old man of the gray feather species beside her. It is said that this person is the "Gray Fur Maester". It must be said that such an image is a bit unexpected, but it is reasonable after thinking about it.

The "Gray Fur Maester" traveled to many places when he was young. He probably returned to the Stone Forest Castle when he was not young, built the city in the mountain, and gradually made the gray feather species prosperous. People who can have such ambition and action should indeed be tough old men, not weak white beards.

"Hello, Graycoat Scholar." Tilan expressed some respect. When she lived in Stone Forest Castle before, the Gray Feathers left a good impression on her.

After a brief acquaintance, Tilan asked the guard at the gate to bring two chairs and let the two sit down to talk. She had a hunch that this conversation would take a long time.

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The sunlight in the hall slowly turned. When it reached noon, there was no direct light in the hall, but it was not dim at this time. The bright blue sky could be seen through the small window on the side of the wall.

Time passed quietly, just as Tilan expected. Lindsay talked for a long time, from when he was adopted as a child to when he gradually grew up, following his mentor to travel through the mountains and frozen soil, learning all kinds of knowledge, and getting to know the settlements and races with different appearances and habits.

"According to the sages of the previous generation, the civilization on this planet has been destroyed nine times. After each time, the traces of the previous civilization were wiped out, and then the various races learned and accumulated experience from ignorance again, gradually revived and expanded."

"Because of the repeated destruction and rebirth, many once glorious technologies and cultures have lost their inheritance and disappeared in the dust."

"Then how do you know all this?" Tilan was curious.

"We, or the 'sage', are an exception. When the fifth generation of civilization, that is, the civilization founded by the electric marrow species, flourished, many electronic documents were left behind. These were obtained by the first sage, who knew the secrets of this world, so he carefully avoided the areas where civilizations were active and went to the northernmost frozen land to establish a place of inheritance and pass down this careful record of history." Lindsay talked about his mission and origin.

"Whenever civilization is destroyed, disasters always fall on places where intelligent creatures gather in large numbers. If you want to survive, you have to stay away from the crowd and go to remote places where no one knows, where life is rare and no one knows."

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"I roughly understand, but since you risk being exposed to come to me, why?" Tilan knew that the other party would not tell her these secrets for no reason.

"I see some hope in you, so I took the risk to come to see you and tell you the truth about the world. As for why, it is naturally because I hope you can lead the new civilization to break free from this spiral of endless cycles."

"It's hard to deny the reason, but I know it's not entirely your true words." Tilan nodded and shook her head.

She could see that the other party was not lying, but it was definitely not the main driving force that pushed him to take the risk to come here. However, Tilan didn't want to force him at this time, so the girl turned her eyes to the gray-capped scholar beside her.

"As a legendary scholar who has traveled all over the world, does Mr. Bernhard have anything to say?"

"I just heard a lot, and many of the things this young man said are indeed in line with some of my past experiences."

"For example, he said that in the mountains further north of Stone Forest Castle, there is a sapphire lake. Its cause is obviously not natural, but was formed when a huge meteorite broke the ridge in this area."

"Also, after the continent goes out to the sea, there is a small continent full of swamps to the west and south. Deep in the swamps covered with mud, you can Digging out some obvious man-made remains can also correspond to the destroyed seventh-generation civilization he just mentioned. "

"Why can't you see a small island in the vast ocean between the North Continent and the South Continent? This is actually very abnormal from the geographical common sense of crustal movement and continental collision and compression. My guess is that there was a broken island civilization in this sea area, but it was destroyed hundreds of years ago, and all the islands sank into the sea. "

With the endorsement of this 'Gray Fur Maester', many of the things Lindsay said just now became more credible.

"As Her Highness Heshia said, since the 'Sage' lineage recorded such an important thing, it should be passed on more carefully. I wonder why you are so anxious?" He asked the red-brown-haired young man again.

Seeing that both the Gray Fur Maester and Heshia pointed out this crux, Lindsay knew that in front of such a smart person, continuing to conceal would only lose trust.

He sighed, sorted out his words, and then looked out the window.

"Like you said, my behavior is indeed very risky and a little difficult to understand."

He no longer sits upright, but leans back in his chair, puts his hands together, and occasionally taps them to relieve anxiety.

"I was raised by the sage since I was a child. The sage is very good to me, very kind and patient. Logically, I shouldn't have other emotions."

"But the thinking and logic I have been trained since I was a child keep telling me a fact that I can't fit into this world. It's like a person walking into a zoo, or an ant accidentally entering the kingdom of giants. The animals are very lively and have different and vivid lives. The giants are very powerful and have their own unattainable abilities and knowledge."

"However, we are fundamentally different from each other. Even if they are very good to me, I can still feel this alien feeling, as if I were watching an old horror movie."

"-They are just alien creatures with the same appearance as humans."

"I am very afraid of this world, so I have always tried not to go to crowded places. Only when I am alone can I feel relaxed. "

"Naturally formed things are like tree rings, with all kinds of wounds, mottled, imperfect, and artificially made things are straight, neat, and pure."

"If you live in the natural world, occasionally seeing the creations of civilization, you will feel a sense of wonder, and you will also have some curiosity and yearning."

"But if you live in a world where everything is well-regulated, everything is in line with standards, neat, pure, and straight, after a long time, there will be some inexplicable suffocation, which means that you have never actually gained freedom, everything is under control, there are no surprises, and there is nothing new and different, everything is repeated. "

"Unfortunately, I just had this experience."

"I feel that this planet, this world is a huge cage. Even if I am happy to see the sunset occasionally, soon after this happiness, there will be a cold suffocating feeling spreading, like cold water over the ankles. Yes, it will not drown me, nor is it enough to kill me, but it will permanently and invisibly remind me of the cold truth of this world."

"I have been tortured by this feeling for a long time. Although I look as healthy as an ordinary person, I know that if this state continues, I am afraid I will completely collapse one day."

"So after receiving the letter from my junior sister, I immediately set off and came here after a long journey. The fresh breath and the ever-developing vitality of this city have relieved my anxiety very well and let me see some hope. In the end, these prompted me to make up my mind to come to you and tell you everything I know." After saying this, he seemed to be burned out and a little weak, but his eyes revealed satisfaction, probably because he released the pressure hidden in his heart for many years.

Listening to the other party's cathartic statement, Tilan seemed to see a flame that was constantly struggling and swaying, and now it finally stopped shaking and calmed down.

I didn't expect it to be like this. She felt the diversity and complexity of the world, and there were many things that could not be inferred by logic.

"I understand." Tilan nodded and recognized the man who had finished speaking his mind.

It seems that the other party should be too sensitive to the truth of this world, so he also experienced the pain that ordinary people could not understand.

I didn't expect that under the seemingly wild and rough appearance of this planet, there are so many secrets hidden, just like a thousand-layer pie that is constantly opened. Who doesn't know what is hidden at the bottom.

After saying this, it was already past noon. Compared with the huge secret that Lindsay was carrying, the performance of the Gray Cape Bachelor was much more normal and rational. Through this half-day conversation, Tilan felt that the other party's personality was similar to those curious and playful old men on the street.

Only when he occasionally talked about key issues would he become serious, with a bit of the temperament that the title of "Gray Cape Bachelor" should have.

"It seems that we still have a lot to face in the future. If you don't mind, I will arrange accommodation for you two in the city so that you can live a stable life here." After finishing the conversation, Tilan stood up.

"Thank you, Her Highness Heshia." The two bowed in the afternoon light to express their gratitude.