Chapter 45
Chapter 45: The Kanniat Dynasty
“Mm… hmm, good morning, Sister Sibyl, Sister Shirley is here too?” Annie rubbed her eyes and let out a long yawn.
“Good morning, Miss Annie.” Shirley gave Annie a slight nod.
“Morning, Annie~” Sibyl smiled charmingly, stood up, and took out a set of tableware from the cabinet, pouring milk into a cup: “How is it, are you feeling any discomfort?”
“I’m already fine… it’s just that my memory of last night is a bit blurry,” Annie sat at the table and yawned again: “I only remember that I was very angry… and then… right! Where is Sister Lina?!”
Annie suddenly widened her eyes with a jolt.
“Your Sister Lina has already gone to see the Queen of the Underworld!” Lina lay on the sofa with her eyes closed, speaking in a joking tone.
“Sister Lina!” Annie rushed toward Lina without hesitation and threw herself into her arms, a mist forming in her large gray eyes.
She rubbed hard against Lina’s chest, tightly hugging her back, gently inhaling her scent: “Sister Lina, you’re okay… really, really that’s wonderful…”
Lina rubbed Annie’s hair: “It’s fine, it’s fine… we won… also, you’re pressing me so hard I can hardly breathe…”
Annie hurriedly climbed down from Lina, wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, her voice still a little choked: “S-sorry…”
“Don’t apologize, oh right, I’ll tell you some good news,” Lina patted the empty spot beside her, signaling Annie to sit next to her: “We’ll have a new guest at home from now on. Sibyl will be moving in as well. Her room is the bedroom on the east side of the first floor.”
“By the way, her cooking is really good!”
Annie’s eyes immediately lit up. She looked at Sibyl, then at Lina, not sure what she was thinking, but she revealed an expression of pure enjoyment.
After a brief pause, she walked toward the dining room and enjoyed a lady’s breakfast together with Shirley and Sibyl.
Lina didn’t notice this detail. She picked up the latest newspaper delivered by the postman this morning from the coffee table. The notice on the front page headline was more eye-catching than ever.
“From today onward, a large number of cultist activities have appeared in Gaul, Serna, and some southern border towns. Citizens are advised to pay attention to their personal safety. If any abnormal situations are discovered, please promptly report them to the local police department, Wizards’ Association, or Witches’ Association.”
Below were listed several incidents of cult activities, and Lina also saw the incident in Osselro Town where cultists attacked the Witches’ Association.
What are these lunatics trying to do? Why are they causing trouble everywhere?
Lina’s gaze swept across the lower section and saw a “familiar face”.
“Latest news on the film ‘Blue Rose’: Ms. Hepburn reveals the female lead has been chosen!”
Not bad, not bad. I wonder which girl is so lucky to perform on the same stage as a top star…
“50,000 gold dragons! The Third Pharaoh’s Scepter successfully auctioned! The original owner, Mr. Scottel, stated that he will donate 90% of the auction proceeds to address the desertification problem of the Sadar Desert!”
A righteous gentleman indeed! Lina nodded approvingly. The goddess of fortune always favored kind people—this saying was indeed true.
“Koberen Central Bank launches a brand-new financial product! Up to twelve installments of interest-free loans! New opportunities are right before your eyes! The Central Bank will also introduce a new denomination of 1000 livre, making large transactions more convenient!”
Still messing around, still messing around… Fortunately, I use gold dragons, not livre. Who knows if, after a financial crisis breaks out, a 500 banknote will turn into a worthless piece of paper.
“Yuejianqiu issues strong condemnation toward Yunque, demanding that the Yunque authorities dismiss the Fox God and sell the recipe for pork pies.”
“A spokesperson from the Yunque Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ouyang Jing, responded: If you want the recipe, come learn it yourselves. The Fox God’s household registration transfer process and labor contract are both legal and compliant. The Yunque authorities have no right to interfere with a citizen’s lawful rights.”
Lina’s eyelids twitched as she read. So this Fox God really had been lured over by pork pies! How had even the household registration already been processed?!
“Worker demonstrations and strikes break out in multiple regions of Adler, worker representatives call for increased wage protections for ordinary laborers.”
Sigh, there was nothing that could be done about that. Although the liberation of productivity in this world relied on pollution-free magic, most production lines still required the labor of ordinary workers.
Witches and wizards were protected by Celestis. When companies hired them, they had to provide at least the minimum wage set by the Witches’ or Wizards’ Association, but ordinary people were different—they were still the weaker group in front of capitalists.
“Renowned Yunque expert Tao Guangyi announces that Moshān Heavy Industries Group has successfully developed the seventh-generation magic rocket propulsion engine, the Nine Heavens Plan is bound to succeed!”
Lina vaguely remembered that before her sudden death in her previous life, Yunque had already begun tinkering with magic-guided rockets. They seemed to have a peculiar obsession with launching themselves into the sky.
Especially this Tao Guangyi—rumor had it that this man had once strapped a ring of magic propulsion engines to a chair, trying to launch himself into the stratosphere. If he hadn’t been an A-rank wizard himself, he would probably have reported at the gates of the underworld after that “experiment”...
As she read the news, Lina felt her eyelids growing heavier. The dense text on the newspaper gradually turned into blurry fireflies. In a daze, she leaned against the sofa and fell into a deep sleep...
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“Hey! Wake up, wake up!”
So noisy...
The intense dizziness made Lina unwilling to open her eyes. In her haze, she seemed to feel someone shaking her body.
“Could she be dead... sniff, sniff... she’s breathing... hmm... Uncle said that if you encounter someone unconscious, you can use artificial respiration...”
A warm, fragrant breath approached her face, and Lina immediately felt something was wrong!
She suddenly opened her eyes and met a pair of crystal-clear, amethyst-like pupils.
“Wah!”
Startled, Lina’s body tensed up...
Then she slammed her head forward, knocking straight into the other girl’s forehead.
......
Standing beneath a tree, Lina cast a simple healing spell on the girl’s forehead. The redness and swelling visibly subsided at a rapid pace.
“Alright, it shouldn’t hurt anymore.” Lina withdrew her hand, full of apology.
The girl blinked. She reached up to touch her forehead, then broke into a bright smile.
“It really doesn’t hurt anymore! You’re amazing! Big sister, are you a holy maiden from the Holy City?”
Only then did Lina get a proper look at the girl before her.
The setting sun filtered through layers of leaves, coating her pink hair in a honey-like glow.
Her hair was braided into several delicate plaits, cleverly coiled at the back of her head and secured with a small bronze hair clasp. A few unruly curls hung loosely by her cheeks.
Her clothing style was quite strange, unlike the attire of any country Lina knew.
Her upper body was dressed in a white long gown, paired with a wide dark red wool shawl. One end of the shawl wrapped around her back and rested on her left shoulder, while the other end hung down naturally. The edges of the shawl were decorated with simple blue geometric patterns, complementing the golden wheat-shaped braided cord tied around her waist.
On her feet, she wore a pair of flat sandals that looked very comfortable. Soft leather straps wound around her fair calves, tied all the way up to just below her knees.
“Y-you…” Lina stared in a daze and asked instinctively, “Who are you? And where is this place?”
The girl smiled sweetly. “My name is Mira. As for this place, it’s the outskirts of the Moonlight Forest! You almost became dinner for a Night Howler Beast!” She tilted her head slightly, pink strands brushing against her cheek. “What about you? You’re dressed so strangely—did you come from a very faraway place?”
Moonlight Forest? Night Howler Beast? Names she had never heard before.
Am I… wait, just now I was lying on the sofa reading a newspaper…
Lina summoned her status panel.
【Lavinia Astra】
Abnormal Status: Cognitive Deviation (Unable to use spacetime magic, causality magic, unable to fly)
Buff Status: Blessing of the God of Fate (Luck +50%) Blessing of the Book of All Worlds (Automatic language correction)
So it was that dream from before! Then her current state was… she had been thrown back two thousand years by that bratty little Fantasia?
She suddenly realized that, thanks to the “Blessing of the Book of All Worlds,” the language and text in her cognition had naturally changed as well. This brand-new language must be the official language of the Kanniat Dynasty… no wonder she could communicate with this girl without any barriers.
“Sorry… my memory is a bit confused…” Lina brushed the fallen leaves off her body. “My name is Lavinia… may I ask what year it is?”
“Ah? You… have amnesia?” Mira blinked her bright, watery eyes. “This year is 334 of the Holy City Calendar. Big sister, aren’t you from the Holy City?”