“Why don’t I bring you over to Lilith’s room.” Xiao Lin broke the awkwardness in the air. He felt like Silverlight might not be comfortable being in a room with him alone.
“No need. I don’t have a common language with her.” Silverlight’s Ancient Normese was better than Xiao Lin’s.
“Fine, there’s no problem if you’re fine with it. Oh, if you feel like it’s not comfortable in the Holy Soul Sword you can walk around here.” Xiao Lin maintained a certain amount of respect toward Silverlight. She was the trump card against Asabanor that he had invited, so he obviously needed to treat her well. If Silverlight left due to being unhappy and Asabanor appeared, he would really be caught off-guard.
“There’s no need.”
Silverlight was still cold as usual, but her gaze never left Xiao Lin’s body. After a few minutes, Xiao Lin coughed dryly in awkwardness, half-jokingly saying, “Your face is really scary. If it were on Earth, we’d say you have horror movie vibes.”
“Horror movie?”
Looking at Silverlight’s curious expression, Xiao Lin sighed, too lazy to explain to her what movies were.
After a long silence, Xiao Lin had thought that Silverlight planned on passing the night sitting like that. Silverlight withdrew her gaze, saying in her cold and puzzled tone, “Your physique is very special. How do I say this; it’s a little…”
“I’m just at Black Iron-rank,” Xiao Lin said unhappily. He thought that Silverlight was criticizing him for his bad physique. Even if the initial examinations when he entered the academy proved Silverlight right, he was only at the Black Iron-rank now.
“No, I’m not talking about that. I’m comparing you to my race.”
“Oh, the Atlanteans?”
Silverlight nodded.
Xiao Lin was a little curious. Silverlight had kept quiet about Atlantis the entire journey. Lilith had speculated to him privately that Silverlight did not want to open that particular wound, but now Silverlight actually brought it up by herself.
Xiao Lin said, “I’m not that familiar with Atlantis. Ever since your civilization was destroyed, practically any trace of your kind had been wiped out. How do I put this… Are you saying that your race’s physique used to be very good?”
Silverlight nodded, adding, “We felt like our bodies were the greatest gift God bestowed unto us, so we had to refine them.”
Was this the difference between a civilization that emphasized skill and a civilization that emphasized technology?
Xiao Lin cursed silently, smiling bitterly as he said, “I don’t have the natural gifts of your race. In truth, based on what I know, most humans on Earth have pretty bad physiques nowadays. Our foundations can’t even compare to the natives here, even though we improve faster than they do.”
“I don’t mean it like that.” Silverlight furrowed her eyebrows, thinking for a moment before saying,” I’m not saying that your physique is bad. It’s just special.”
“Which part of it is special?” Xiao Lin had a head full of sweat talking to Silverlight.
“It’s very similar.”
“What? What’s similar?” Xiao Lin was getting impatient. Why could the woman not just finish what she was talking about?
Silverlight breathed in deeply; it was not that she was doing it on purpose, but her tone sounded very reluctant. After seemingly making up her mind, she slowly said, “With my race! To a certain degree, your body is very similar to my race’s. I feel a sense of familiarity from your body.”
After that, SIlverlight sighed. sShe knew that her race no longer existed.
Xiao Lin was dumbfounded. Silverlight’s words were rather unclear. That woman seemed a little like Gu Xiaoyue, always leaving things half spoken.
After Silverlight finished, she did not seem to have any intention of continuing, instead changing the topic. “I just wanted to tell you, that swordsman in your sword is quite interesting. I bet Onyxia helped you level it up. I’m intrigued. Let me play with it for a few days.”
“What? Play with it?”
Before Xiao Lin could finish, Silverlight returned to the Holy Soul Sword. Xiao Lin shook his head in resignation, but as long as Silverlight was willing to stay around, there was no reason to refuse her, even if he could not figure out what she meant by playing around…
Even with a female ghost that could appear at any time by his side, Xiao Lin had a very good rest that night. It was also due to the fact that he was too exhausted from the past few days.
The next day, it was almost noon when he woke up. The inn also mimicked Earth and had a buffet prepared. Since it was near Dawn Academy, the dishes there were mainly eastern, on top various local native delicacies. The taste was not bad.
He saw Lilith and Ibeiya there. Noticing that Ibeiya seemed to have a new ornament in her hand, Xiao Lin paused before asking, “Where did you go this morning?”
“It’s not like everyone can sleep like a log like you did!” Lilith said, rolling her eyes before saying, “She insisted on going shopping this morning, so I went out with her.”
Xiao Lin obviously knew what Lilith meant. Lilith did not like shopping personally; she only accompanied Ibeiya to protect or look after her.
“What’s it like outside?”
“The checks are quite strict. The Public Security Alliance has been looking all over the place.” Considering there were others in the restaurant, Lilith did not say that the checks were due to what they did last night.
“Don’t worry!” Ibeiya said without a care as she smiled. “Their checks are just formalities. They only do it for you guys, and for everyone else to see.”
“What’s the situation in Wildfire Town?” Xiao Lin asked. He believed that Lilith would have tried to get some information.
Lilith nodded. “Even though they suppressed the news a bit, it’s too big of an issue. There’s a lot of chatter around the city, most of it without much substance. However, there’s one piece of news that’s quite interesting. Listen up.”
Lilith lowered her voice a little. “Some of them are saying that Planet Norma’s true God was ascending and preparing to cleanse the world of filth. Only following them to defeat the demons would anyone earn the right to a new life. Otherwise, everyone would be subject to heavenly punishment.
Xiao Lin furrowed his eyebrows. “The origin of this rumor is definitely not simple.”
“That old fart is definitely the one who started it. I tried listening around; it seems quite a lot of people have heard about this.” Lilith’s face had a faint trace of worry.
Xiao Lin sighed. “That old fart is really crafty.”
This was the Silver Province’s most bustling area; all the merchants and mercenaries on Planet Norma passed through the area. If the news started to spread, it was not a stretch to assume that the news would spread like a plague across Planet Norma in just a short time.
The world did not have any networks or media, so it was not easy for rumors to spread. However, Asabanor had figured out one of the best methods, and Wildfire Town’s sorry state fanned the flames even harder.