Chapter 319 - 221: World of Conflict (Part Three)
Manli stepped off the train and immediately felt the festive atmosphere of The Capital.
Yes, it was the quinquennial national competition again, where all the Churches had gathered their Apprentices to The Capital in the name of the royal family for a month-long combat tournament.
This brought back memories to Manli of when she was younger; back then, her brother was still alive. He was a senior student at the Church of the War God and had led the senior team of the Church of the War God to a miraculous victory in that competition—wresting the Sydney Victory Cup’s four-year ownership from the hands of the Church of Justice.
Such beautiful memories indeed. Back then, all her older brothers and sisters were around, the younger siblings were still little, and her father and mother looked after the home.
Not like now, her elder brother had passed away in his sickbed, her sister and brother-in-law had both fallen in a defensive battle in the north, one younger brother was missing, another had died in the Chaos, and of her sisters, only the youngest was still alive but had long since married off to the Eastern Kingdom, without even a single letter all year.
"Manli, are you reminiscing about the past again?"
Manli’s husband always understood her so well, much to the satisfaction of the old lady. Although she had aged, her husband still remembered her, so what was there to complain about?
With this thought, Manli smiled and nodded.
"I hear that Malin is also coming this year, right?"
Speaking of which, over the years, Manli had watched this child grow up. She had to admit that Anna’s eldest daughter, as a woman, truly possessed a far better eye than either of her own mothers, to the point that Manli wasn’t even sure whom she would have chosen if Malin and her own husband had both appeared before her younger self.