As the little princess of the Northern border, Wilona had seen everything good, so she immediately recognized the pendant’s main body was carved from an extremely huge and rare Space Gem!
And such a large size, such exquisite craftsmanship… Slightly swallowing, Wilona carefully reached out to stroke the pendant.
Though she had the fanciful thought that “Truth gave me a Space Pendant,” it was just a thought. Wilona didn’t believe Truth would give her something so precious.
A Space Gem this size would have at least five cubic meters of space, almost worth the entire Deya City.
Unless Truth was stupid, she definitely wouldn’t give a spatial item as a gift!
Then, Wilona’s index finger lightly touched the pendant. It felt cold and had a strange texture.
The pigeon-egg-sized silver gem with swirling nebula-like patterns inside emitted a peculiar fluctuation…
What if it really is a Space Gem?
Driven by curiosity, Wilona tried injecting a little Mana into the gem. The next second, her consciousness was sucked into a three-dimensional space about ten cubic meters in size.
“Mew?!”
Wilona’s cat body jolted. Wait, this really was a Space Gem?
And the space was even larger than she expected!
A ten-cubic-meter portable storage space… Its value exceeded two Deya Citys! No, this should be priceless!
In Wilona’s memory, even the Empress of the Northern Empire, Vira—her mother—who loved collecting rare gems, only had a Space Gem with seven cubic meters at most.
“This… this… this pendant…” After leaving the gem space, Wilona suddenly stammered, her mind blank, unsure how to face Truth.
Just a few minutes ago, she was hissing at Truth, and now Truth had given her such a precious gift…
“Don’t you like it?” Truth tilted her head and asked. It seemed this little princess of the Northern Empire had too high standards. Even a ten-cubic-meter storage space wasn’t enough…
Truth remembered this thing was supposed to be quite valuable for Adventurers below Nine-Rank. Was she out of touch?
“N-no… not that…”
Wilona held the Space Pendant in both hands and instinctively stepped back. Her heart raced uncontrollably.
At the same time, all her previous grievances, anger, and frustration were instantly replaced by immense shock and disbelief.
Was this real? A Saintess from a backward border area pulled out a priceless Space Pendant from behind an old, dilapidated cathedral and gave it to her…
It was like a villager sharing nuclear fusion knowledge with a Player. Wilona felt this was too dreamlike!
“Truth… do you know how precious this pendant is? Are you really giving this to me?” Wilona asked dazedly.
“I roughly know. It just has a ten-cubic-meter storage space. So what? And you gave me a little feather, so I can’t give you a little pendant? Enough with the nonsense. Put it on!”
Truth snatched the pendant and directly put it around Wilona’s neck. The delicate silver luster perfectly complemented the latter’s current attire, looking very fitting.
Little pendant? Easy for you to say… Wilona glanced at the silver pendant on her chest, then looked up at Truth’s head, where the Lucky Feather was now covered just inches away…
Was it because I gave Truth the Beast God’s lucky feather that she gave me this Space Pendant?
If the two items were of similar value, Wilona would have gladly accepted. But the problem was their value didn’t match at all!
If the Lucky Feather were compared to Snowveil City, then this Space Pendant was Sun City, with nearly double the value difference…
“This… this gift is too precious. I… I can’t accept…”
“If you don’t accept, you look down on me.”
Truth said coldly, cutting off Wilona’s polite refusal. Seriously, dragging it out over a gift. You’re an imperial princess who has seen everything good. What are you pretending for?
But this time Truth was wrong. Wilona really had never seen such a good thing.
In her memory, apart from the Sylvia Royal Family, the only family in the entire Kingdom of Sylvia that could rival the Northern Imperial Family in wealth was the Sun Family.
So Wilona felt this Space Pendant could appear in Wangdu, or in Sun City, but definitely not in Deya City…
‘Did my arrival mean that much to Truth?’ Wilona thought.
“Alright!” Since Truth had welcomed her with such high standards, Wilona couldn’t lose face for the Northern Royal Family. She said seriously:
“Truth, give me back the Bone Flute. I’m going to ask the Beast God for a few more Lucky Feathers for you right now!”
“Huh? Why? One lucky feather is enough.”
“No way! Then I’d be taking advantage of you!”
“I don’t mind. If it’s you, I’m fine with anything.”
“Wha… Mew?!”
Truth’s sentence—vaguely intimate—directly ended the polite back-and-forth. Soon, Wilona’s cheeks flushed, and she felt too embarrassed to look at Truth.
Suddenly, the Ninth Saintess really did seem as gentle as her little aunt had said…
As for the earlier conflict between them, Wilona thought it was probably just a difference in customs… probably?
Then Truth pressed her advantage. This time, she directly reached out and stroked Wilona’s head, and even tried touching her furry ears:
“You’ve traveled all the way from Snowveil City to Deya City. You must be exhausted now. Come, I’ll take you for a hot bath and then get you changed.
How about wearing a Priest Robe? With the Priest Headdress, it can hide your ears. And pretending to be a Priest while out will save a lot of trouble.”
Truth’s voice was very gentle, because she was now trying to build the “gentle and understanding big sister” image she hadn’t shown earlier, while also testing the kitten’s current acceptance of her.
After giving the gift, Wilona was already willing to let Truth touch her ears a little. Good, good…
“Mm…” Feeling Truth’s deliberate or accidental touches on her ears, Wilona slightly rose on her tiptoes, holding back the urge not to let out a purr of contentment.
The reason she couldn’t let close people touch her ears was exactly this. As the princess of the Northern Empire, if she got petted by someone else in public and felt so good that she relaxed and slumped onto them…
That would be too shameful for the Northern Royal Family!