The atmosphere in the room froze once again. Aside from Truth, the other two fell into a long, contemplative silence.
Vira had no idea how to face Truth anymore.
Since the latter was a Mind Projection, her prized sense of smell couldn’t pick up on Truth’s actual emotions at all.
On top of that, the Beast God had never introduced Truth to her in any detail, leaving Vira’s understanding of Truth essentially at zero.
Moreover, the Beast God was acting very strange today. Vira kept feeling like He was deliberately favoring Truth, always speaking up for her…
…
To ease the mood, the Beast God continued with a chuckle:
“I didn’t expect you to know about the Sky Flower Sea, Truth. You’ve never mentioned it to me before, haha! What a shame, though. If you’d introduced yourself to Vira earlier, she wouldn’t have had to work so hard… Oh, right, Truth, so the Wishing Pool at the Sky Flower Sea really does exist, doesn’t it?”
The Beast God was genuinely curious about that Wishing Pool.
As a natural Rui Beast, His combat prowess ranked nowhere among the Gods, so He had to develop His Disciples.
As long as He could open a path for His Disciples to reach King Rank, then even if He were gone one day, His Disciples could barely hold their own against the persecution of other Gods.
“Yes, it really exists. And yes, if you toss in enough Gold Coins, you can get what you want. Though it’s not like you can get just anything—depends on the refresh,” Truth said.
“As long as you have enough Gold Coins, that’s it? No other requirements? Can anyone use the Wishing Pool?” Vira asked.
“Generally speaking, yes. But well…”
Truth suddenly recalled that the default font on the Thousand Lakes Arena menu was Simplified Chinese, so she warned the Beast God and Vira:
“If you use it, you might run into trouble due to the language issue. After all, the Wishing Pool’s default font will most likely be Ancient Text. If you can’t read it, you probably won’t get what you want. But if you can bring up voice input, that should solve the problem.”
The pronunciation of the Ancient Language and the current Common Language was basically identical, and it even came with translation built in.
After all, the language these NPCs used now was the fictional language the game developers created back then.
When Truth made announcements in the Mist before, she also basically used voice input.
It was a brain-computer game—if you’re already connected to your consciousness, pulling up a virtual keyboard to type would be way too lame.
It’s just that sometimes speaking wasn’t as fast as tapping with a finger, so during combat, most people still preferred the old-school manual method—pulling up the menu and tapping with their fingers.
Wishing Pool… Ancient Text… voice input… After spitting out another string of things Vira half-understood, Truth’s image in Vira’s mind suddenly became unfathomably deep.
“Truth, can you read Ancient Text?” Vira probed.
“No duh. I told you I’m 500 years old. How could I not read it?” Truth wore an expression like she was looking at an idiot.
Vira suddenly had a whole new perspective on Truth.
She could almost understand why the Beast God wanted to be friends with this somewhat dim-witted Second-rank Priest…
Even if Truth’s intelligence was low, as long as she really had lived 500 years, could read Ancient Text, and remembered countless secrets from the past, then anyone would desperately want to be her friend!
A 500-year-old living fossil!
In the face of 500 years of knowledge, being a Second-rank Priest or being dim-witted wasn’t a flaw at all! Those were just… quirks!
“Elder Sister!” Vira immediately crouched in front of Truth, bringing her gaze level with the latter’s, doing her best to present an equal posture, then showed a pleading expression:
“Could you help us find the Wishing Pool? That Wishing Pool is extremely important to our future.”
A wise man submits to circumstance. Having sensed Truth’s incredibly precious value, Vira called out “Elder Sister” once again.
As one of the top few rulers in this world, Vira never hesitated at critical moments. She knew she had to latch onto Truth now.
And fortunately, just like everyone else, Truth had no idea how much wealth she actually possessed, so she would definitely never talk money with her.
Perfect—spending the smallest cost for the greatest gain!
No wonder the Beast God was so protective of her. If being nice to Truth meant learning the whereabouts of many secret treasures, then forget “Elder Sister”—she’d even call her “Mother”!
Unfortunately, the next second, Truth directly waved her hand. “No.”
“Huh?!” Vira was stunned. Why was the refusal so decisive? Just now, when she and the Beast God had asked questions, Truth answered without hesitation. But now that she formally sought her help, she flat-out refused… What kind of logic was that?
Could it be that the Beast God’s hint earlier was that Truth’s thought process was abnormal, not her intelligence?
“May I ask why?” Vira asked sincerely.
She knew that when communicating with someone with an abnormal thought process, you had to follow their train of thought.
So she had to figure out what Truth was thinking.
“Why?” Truth planted her hands on her hips, her expression full of disdain:
“Because you won’t even sincerely call me ‘Elder Sister’!”
“I-I-I… I did call you!”
“You missed a few times earlier! Don’t think I didn’t notice. The two times you called me at the start were just polite pleasantries because you were worried about my status being higher than yours. And the one just now was only flattery because I have information you want.”
With that, Truth showed a disappointed expression.
“Sigh, you juniors these days are all the same—profit-obsessed types who don’t respect your Predecessors. And here I was, wanting to treat you like a little sister…”
…
“Then… then what do I need to do to earn your forgiveness? Elder Sister!” Vira chose not to explain or defend herself.
In this situation, explaining and defending would only make Truth dislike her more. She had to follow Truth’s logic!
“Heh.” Truth looked at the slightly nervous Vira with an amused expression, then stepped forward, her hands playfully cupping Vira’s face, which closely resembled Wilona’s:
“It’s not impossible for me to help you. You just need to agree to a few simple requirements.”
“No problem, name them! As long as I can do it!”
Vira immediately focused. Her empire was so poor it only had Gold Coins left. As long as it was material needs, just name them! Meanwhile, the Beast God furrowed His brow… Then Truth continued:
“First, from now on, whenever I’m present, every sentence you say has to end with a ‘meow’!”
“Huh? ‘Meow’?!” Vira was shocked again. What kind of condition was that? Isn’t that something only kittens do? Why would you suddenly make me do something so incomprehensible?”
But then again, this fit Truth’s abnormal thought process perfectly…
“Second.” Truth held up two fingers, paused, and continued:
“In front of me, you can only be a cat. Got it?”
“Um… what does that even mean? I’m already a cat…” Vira was baffled.
She couldn’t understand half of what Truth said, and she was starting to worry internally that this person might be setting some trap in her words.
But whenever she encountered this kind of situation, Vira would immediately seek the Beast God’s opinion! She just needed the Beast God to take a look at her fate…
So Vira quickly glanced at the Beast God, only to find Him shaking His head frantically.
Don’t agree!
The Beast God had seen one of the future visions after Vira nodded.
In an empty palace, Truth—still wearing her Priest Robe—sat cross-legged on the throne that originally belonged to Vira, while Vira, wearing her crown, was…
rolling around at Truth’s feet making “purring” sounds… as if trying to please Truth?
No trace of an Empress at all. This seemed to be a future that was being “played with”…
Wilona had already been taken away, and now it was Vira’s turn… Having both of His little cats toyed with by a Demon… This was something the Beast God absolutely could not accept!
But as if sensing the exchanged glances between the Beast God and Vira, Truth followed Vira’s gaze to the Beast God behind her and said without a trace of emotion:
“Nod.”
Honestly, when a guest comes to your house, can’t they even play with your cat? Then why did you even raise a cat?
“Um…” The Beast God shrank His neck in fright, then glanced at Vira, who was crouched in front of Truth waiting for His reply…
The Beast God still remembered what He had to do upon meeting Truth if He didn’t want both their fates to fall into the abyss.
So this was fate, then? He could avoid the Destruction of Doom, but He would correspondingly lose something in return. Damn it, another one of His little cats…
Finally, the Beast God turned His face away and slowly nodded…