The Shadow of the Crown of Snow [Western Fantasy]

When Selene and Hecate lingered back to the hotel, it was already late at night, but the street lights on the street hadn’t been extinguished, and the noise in the city hadn’t stopped either. Many people were drinking and chatting shoulder to shoulder.

The unique appearance of the two of them from the north is completely different from that of the Talis, but they don't feel any incompatibility. They seem to have quickly integrated into everything here, and they have become here—two ordinary people in the city of Seaman. people.There is no royal status, no responsibility of the ancestors, just two ordinary people without any worries, living quietly in a city that allows them to live a happy life.

For the people, this is the freedom and equality of Talis, which is one of the fundamental factors that attract them to stay in this country.

Hecate was still drinking mead at Gu Yinuo's house just now, and now he is looking at the wine glasses in the hands of several drinkers and the desserts on the display rack behind the hotel counter.

"The happiness of the Talisians is freedom and equality, and the happiness of the Nords is probably wine, desserts, and dried meat." Selene tore the biltong in her hand in half, and handed half to Hecate. "What will the people of Nagrand and Wilton think?"

"The people of Nagrand like to hunt." Hecate chewed the jerky and poured half a glass of mead into the two glasses on the table. "As for Wilton...it probably has something to do with their God of Light."

"It makes sense." Selene took one of the cups, "Sometimes I really envy them, even if they don't have anything, as long as they hold the Holy Book of Light firmly and talk about the God of Light, they seem to be able to live well .”

"What do you envy them? You don't have the Holy Scripture of Light, and you don't know how to chant the God of Light. Your status has plummeted, but you still live well. If you can do this yourself, why do you need the God of Light?" Hecate pretended to be profound and approached Selene, "I think you can consider being my first believer, and I can give you some extra benefits."

"I'm already an Illuminati."

"What are you afraid of? The God of Light may not even know you, but I am standing in front of you alive." Hecate took Selene by the shoulders and pulled her into his arms, calculating mysteriously, "What do you think about the light?" The gods should understand it quite well, what kind of benefits did the first believer of the God of Light get, I will give you double."

Selene knocked on her forehead angrily: "The first believer of the God of Light was the founder of the Holy Church of Wilton. He followed God's teachings and did not become Pope, and was finally killed by several apostates. Murdered in the wild."

"The God of Light didn't send a miracle to bring him back to life or something?"

"Of course not. In fact, after the God of Light had followers, he never appeared on this continent again. But you are different from him after all. He is the main god of the continent, but you are the patron saint—— And after you really have a godhead, I won't be able to be your first believer, at that time my body has already entered the royal cemetery, and my soul is staying in your body."

"Then... Who should rule the Nord Kingdom?" Hecate blinked in confusion, "Do you still have to find time to get married and have a child?"

"Leave it to you." Selene replied in a very understated tone, "Who else?"

"But at that time, I was the patron saint of the Northland?"

"Why, you promised me that you would be my heir, and you want to renege on your debt after becoming a god?" Selene cut a small piece of cake with a spoon and stuffed it into Hecate's mouth, "I don't ask too much, You, an immortal god, take two or three hundred years to manage the Nord Kingdom, and train a trustworthy heir by the way. When you don't want to do it one day, you will deal with everything that needs to be dealt with, and then hand over the whole country to him. .”

"You're pretty casual about it."

"Of course I am very casual. I am desperately trying to fight back Frost City, not because I want to be king, but because I don't want to see the Nord Kingdom become part of the territory of the Nagrand Empire." Selene patted Hecate on the back, "Have you finished eating? Go upstairs and sleep."

Selene didn't know why she didn't realize there was only one bed in the room until now.

In fact, it was not the first time that she and Hecate slept in the same bed. She knew that the problem was never whether they slept together, but what was going on in their minds when they slept together.So Hecate was naturally frank and undisguised about this, but Selene was very guilty.

She also wondered from time to time, could Hecate's current emotions allow her to understand this matter?Even if I told her, would she understand?Or do you have to try it out to find out?

But Selene will quickly reject the idea of ​​"trying to know", she would rather continue like this, let this relationship rot in her stomach, and become a regret that will not cause trouble.

Hecate will one day have a godhead.She may not be able to live forever like the Lord God of the Continent, the God of Light, but as a Patronus, as long as there are people from the Northland on the Hindley Continent, she can continue to exist.That is, she is immortal, at least as far as the human imagination can foresee.

Now there are still forty souls in her body that are not obedient and occasionally seize control of her body. After she obtains the godhead, these souls will be burned into her original and purest power of faith, and the public loves her. With her beliefs, she can continuously replenish the power of these beliefs, allowing her to live without relying on them.When Selene dies, her soul will not stay in Hecate's body, but will be dissipated into the power of faith and completely disappear from this world.

Selene feels that any troubles she has now are just a shorter part of the short life of human beings. Even if she is lucky and has 20 years to live, she only needs to suffer silently for 20 years.But if she confides this to Hecate, Hecate will spend the next almost eternity worrying about her.

Selene didn't want Hecate to suffer this with eternal life.

Hecate is not yet a god.But Selene felt that there was already a gap between God and man between herself and Hecate, which could not be filled or crossed.After discovering that she liked Hecate, Selene tried to escape from their fate more than once.She is no longer going to be the queen of Nord, and Hecate doesn't need to be a god either. They have a similar lifespan and can live peacefully until the end of their lives in a place as good as the city of Seaman.

But now she understands that even if she is cowardly and retreats, and seeks warmth like an ordinary person, Hecate will never compromise.Perhaps it is the destined personality difference in the bones that makes Hecate more suitable than her to be the god who protects the Nord Kingdom and the people of the Northland.

Hecate rarely showed sleepiness, but when she did, she fell asleep faster than a cat sleeping in the sun in the afternoon. Selene was still lying on her side in bed, thinking wildly, and she had already sent out even Breathing.

Selene tucked the blanket for her, listened to the laughter of the alcoholics on the first floor in the dim room, tried hard to close her eyes, and wanted to fall asleep quickly.

After all, she still wanted to escape reality.

Maybe it's the accumulation of fatigue from the journey in the past few days, or maybe it's because too many thoughts in his mind have affected his sleep. When Selene wakes up, it's not far from the time she made an appointment with Gu Yinuo.She hurriedly got up to change her clothes, and Hecate tugged on the Beidi costume on her body: "Do I want to change?"

"No." Selene looked at her while buttoning her buttons, "I'm responsible for making them feel that the Northlanders are smarter than they imagined and not so easy to bully; you are responsible for making them understand that the Northlanders are just as they imagined Powerful, one person can fight twenty. Division of labor and cooperation, understand?"

"Understood." Hecate nodded, straightened his back and adjusted the position of the crescent blade at his waist, "I'm good at this."

On the way to the parliament, Gu Yinuo suddenly brought up an unexpected topic.

"Your Highness Hecate, I checked your affairs a little last night... Have you been living as a proton for 15 years in Nagrand, the enemy country of Nord?"

There is nothing to deny, Hecate nodded generously.

"To be honest, I think our mentality will be very similar. We both yearn for a place where we have almost never set foot, but it is our hometown." Gu Yinuo curled his shoulder-length black short hair, "I am a survivor of Penglai, It looks like a Penglai person, but I never know what the place where the Penglai people live is like."

"It should be a wonderful place there." Selene said sincerely, "Just the little gadgets they sell to other continents are enough to surprise us Hindlei mainlanders. I can't imagine that. What's going on on a continent that allows them to make those things so easily."

"So, although I have never seen it, I also want to go back to my hometown and settle there with my fellow clansmen."

"Yes." Hecate seldom agrees with anyone other than Selene so directly, "So I must go back to Frostcovered City."

The gate of the parliament was getting closer and closer. Gu Yinuo put away her smile and put on a serious expression. She took out her rose medal from her pocket and pinned it on. Then she took out two more medals and handed them to Selene and Hecate.

"The medals of the old nobles are crosses, those of the new nobles are vines, and those of the common people are roses. There is nothing on the medals of the two of you, only a number, which represents outsiders, or—" Gu Yinuo paused, " Temporary Member of the Tallis Union Council."