"Woof!" Old Kohler, having lived for so many years, had never seen such a scene before; his kobold head nearly pointed to the sky, and he was dumbfounded alongside the others!
Beside him, Vanessa tried her best to maintain a pious demeanor, looking up at the temple formed by hundreds of world trees. Reemerging upon the world, and compared with the Tidal Church crafted by the great Siren of the past, undoubtedly... this majestic temple, with a grand sun hanging from its top, surpasses it by countless measures!
"A temple embodies divine power; the more majestic, the mightier...." Vanessa suddenly recalled the Toadmen she encountered the previous night boasting about how great the Swamp God their toad tribe believed in was. A temple personally crafted by Him that stretches over nearly ten thousand miles of swamp... feeling like an ant, looking up....
Atop the towering temple under that brilliant sun, a throne drifted down, followed by a youthful figure with an indistinct face, who descended and took a seat... Vanessa and the dumbfounded kobold beside her found smoke rising at their feet, soaring straight into the clouds, only to look up... and see a gentle smile....
"You are fortunate." Taiyi, sitting below the throne, looked down at the snake and kobold kneeling on the cloud and said warmly, "The lord says, since you have a connection, you each may receive a blessing, so why not express your gratitude?"
Vanessa and old Kohler prostrated themselves, glancing at each other out of the corners of their eyes, and hurriedly bowed their heads, saying, "Thank you for your blessing!"
As their hearts were in turmoil... their minds opened up, and Roy captured their thoughts through En, realizing all they wanted was to...
Support their families!
Old Kohler, physically declining with age, hoped to regain his prime to return to the guild and earn some money for the impending birth of his child... Vanessa, who ran a bathhouse dispersing "impurities" for her living, hoped to obtain something called "Qin Pills" to dispel the "filth" accumulating in her body so she could continue to serve her customers, preventing her bathhouse from being downgraded....
Roy took a focused look at Vanessa. The so-called "Qin Pills" were actually "anchoring objects," a deep-rooted sentiment in her heart for the great Siren, formed through profound love for a poet who enjoyed composing music, allowing her to resist the erosion of nature and creating "crystals of the sound of the qin"....
These "crystals of the sound of the qin" could be a good piece of music, and as long as it moved the great Siren, it could use "love anchoring" to regain sanity gradually lost to natural erosion....
Indeed, the Dark Continent is full of wonders, opening one's eyes wide!
Roy sighed with a fleeting idea... Firstly, to imitate Muzan by feeding divine blood to his followers to rapidly enhance their abilities... Secondly, to materialize some famous piano pieces from his knowledge of his past life and gift them to Vanessa to help her disperse the "filth" accumulating in her body....
With a plan in mind,
Before eliminating Muzan, Roy temporarily gifted old Kohler a volume of "Water Breathing" and imagined manifesting well-known piano compositions by Chopin, Beethoven, Liszt, etc., packaging them into two orbs of light to point at Kohler and Vanessa respectively...
The orbs of light flew in and quickly entered the center of their brows...
Then, before the two of them could snap back to reality, Roy felt his dream realm start to collapse due to the intense consumption of Nen, and with a wave of his hand, severed the misty connections binding Vanessa and old Kohler....
Sending them back to their respective worlds through the Great Dream Door.
"Creak~" The Dream Door closed.
Northern border of the Dark Continent.
Kobold settlement, Howling Moon Wolf King territory, Shattered Bone River ancient town Yellow Village...
In the dead of night,
Old Kohler, holding his pregnant wife, suddenly awoke from sleep, feeling sticky sweat drenching his back.
His wife asleep beside him, and next to her, his three-year-old son....
Old Kohler widened his dog-like eyes, staring at the beams in a daze, reminiscing about his dream experience, swallowing hard, "What a strange dream....."
Humans... serpentine beings... gods... divine servants... temples... blessings... numerous scenes replayed in his small kobold brain like a film reel... Old Kohler never thought he could have such a vivid dream that seemed... real....
The orb of light bestowed by the God in his dream still lingered in his consciousness, feeling so real, bestowing a surreal and illusory sensation!
After a moment, Old Kohler exhaled softly, carefully got out of bed, tucking the blanket around his wife and child, taking another look, before leaving the bedroom to the basement, retrieving a spiked mace that had been gathering dust for nearly a decade...
Turning to the courtyard, under the open moon, he released the orb of light, an instant flood of information surged into his mind... named "Water Breathing!"
"Water Breathing: First Form - Surface Slash... Second Form - Water Wheel... Third Form - Flowing Dance...."
The spiked mace in Old Kohler's hand began to move, dancing with the information... his dog eyes shifted from suspicion to shock to joy, accompanied by the final form "Eleventh Form: Constant Flux...."
Finished the dance,
He leaned against the spiked mace, panting, his emotions rolling like tides, suddenly realizing... this was a highly practical Breathing Technique, capable of instantly boosting his combat power for a surprise strike against adversaries!
So... the blessing was real, the dream was real... then....
Old Kohler thought of the figure bearing the grand sun, seated high upon the throne... his knees buckled, prostrating on the ground once more, fervently thanking, "Thank you for your blessing!"
Suddenly, a gust of wind rose, carrying a wisp of spiritual light, drifting into the night sky....
The proportions between the territories of the Moon Wolf King and the Bath Country, Valen's western suburb,
No. 54-09 Bathhouse, No. 7 Water Orchid Street.
On a luxurious bed entwined with white and green serpentine tails...
Vanessa, as expected, once again had her face covered with her sister Laura's drool.
She woke from her dream, slowly opening her eyes, her golden vertical pupils reflecting the ceiling, staring blankly for a long time....
She pulled a tissue from the bedside to wipe her face, slithered her serpentine tail out, sliding down the window sill, arriving at the window, and reminiscing about the dream... The girl gazed at the night sky, letting the moonlight drape over her, wearing a layer of moon gauze, with a complicated feeling of anticipation, fear of disappointment, she unlocked the orb of light in her mind, the orb given by the dream's god, appropriately...
The moment she heard a melodious piano piece explode in her mind, flowing down, penetrating her soul through her consciousness, striking her heart, making her entire body rigid before returning to her senses...
Feeling all fatigue and "filth" dissipate, transparently, like rebirth!
"Such a beautiful tune, so passionate, so soothing...."
Piece by piece unfolded... new music sheets Vanessa had never heard before, unable to evaluate, compared to the compositions deliberately crafted by the poet for the great Siren back then, at least....
The girl showed a sincere expression, holding a corner of her nightdress, bowing slightly, "Thank you for the blessing...."
Thoughts and moonlight flew high into the sky....
In no time,
Having just exited the dream and unable to maintain the Great Dream Door, Roy heard the corner clock chime, opened his eyes again, and immediately received a panel notification...
[Notification: Power Of Faith +1... from "Potential Believer" Kohler Spencer... please promptly conduct an investiture ceremony to formalize....]
[Notification: Power Of Faith +1... from "Potential Believer" Vanessa Siren... please promptly conduct an investiture ceremony to formalize....]