Boiling Beast Bloodline
Chapter 1480 - 436 Elves Are More Than Meets the Eye

Chapter 1480: Chapter 436 Elves Are More Than Meets the Eye

"The ’Ceremonial Code’ records almost all of the important events across the entire Aegean Continent. Glory belongs to humans, yet greatness belongs to Beamon. The history of Aegean is practically the rise and fall of Beamon, quite fitting for your studies." Liu Zhenhan wiped his eyes and handed the codex to the elf beauty, emphasizing deliberately, "This book has a commemorative significance to me, so don’t lose it or damage it!"

"Your study isn’t half bad..." Elise took the book and looked around. The study was spacious and immense, with a ceiling covered in blooming Thousand-leaf Nymphaea. On the north wall, a Giant Dragon’s skull was strikingly embedded, with a Wolf Fang Club and a tiger-head hook resting on the fireplace below. Each bookshelf was at least three or four meters tall, with books adorned in glittering gold pages.

The furnishings in the study were also the epitome of luxury: the floor was covered with deluxe handwoven carpets that your feet sank into, and desks and sofa sets made from the most sumptuous rosewood covered with rare animal pelts. In each corner stood several lifelike marble statues, clearly the work of master sculptors. Even the light fixtures and teacups were studded with jewels, filling the room with a reflection of wealth that was almost oppressively opulent.

"Where, where." Liu Zhenhan feigned modesty for a moment. The Royal Palace’s library of Kalimantan was virtually replicated here, so how could it be anything less?

"Don’t be, don’t be... Don’t be shy! It’s plenty, plenty... It’s plenty kitsch!" Elise laughed.

"By the way, I also have quite a few knight novels about you. Would you like to see them? I have a treasured, blood-sweat edition," Liu Zhenhan said to Elise with a sly wink.

"Oh? There are novels about me?" Elise found it both ridiculous and fresh. Anyone would feel the same upon discovering themselves written as the protagonist in a book.

"Plenty! The male lead has been switched out countless times, all beautiful and handsome men." Liu Zhenhan shrugged. "It’s fashionable! It’s called alternate history!"

"I haven’t heard of it, but let me have a look!" Aegean Flower eagerly extended her hand to take it, clearly more interested in these trivial novels than in the formal history.

Thus, Liu Zhenhan handed a slightly curled and worn book to Elise, and the elf beauty took a glance at the cover, which depicted a Flower Elf beauty with an exaggeratedly large bosom and seductive attire, gazing into the distance with a misty-eyed look and lightly licking her fiery red lips. The background seemed to be a dragon’s den with piles upon piles of Gold Coins, a dazzling yellow.

The title of the book was also crafted with unique inspiration — "Elves Are Not Pond Creatures."

"It’s really beautiful! But the painting is a bit too erotic." The beautiful elf blinked her exquisite eyes and checked the author’s name on the spine, which was written as Munk, meaning monkey. Pen names these days were getting weirder and weirder.

Nonsense! Could it not be beautiful? They hadn’t even invented paper ten thousand years ago. Liu watched Elise’s retreating figure with a mischievous smirk.

Elise, flipping through the book while following the Maid, suddenly remembered an important matter and turned to ask, "By the way, Richard, when am I supposed to hold the Broad Cold Moon Shadow Ritual? Can it be done tonight? Are there enough Moonstones, or do you have a way to gather them?"

"Not tonight, how about the fifteenth of next month?" Liu Zhenhan slapped his forehead and turned a few circles, pondering for a bit before formally deciding.

There’s no issue in having Elise hold the "Broad Cold Moon Shadow Ritual" to announce her presence to the world and call upon elf warriors to follow her. After all, the Moonstones were readily available, and they could simply have the Alchemists remove one from the Mirror Cannon.

The trouble was, this was going to be a coronation ceremony for a Divine Princess, so they needed ample time to prepare the attire, along with the Saintess and ceremonial guards.

This would be the first ever living Divine Princess in the history of the Aegean Calendar, the first epic hero to walk right out of the chronicles.

If they were to dress her in worldly fashion, it would never look solemn enough, no matter how glamorous. Or rather, it wouldn’t be trendy and dazzling enough.

Liu’s plan was exceptionally straightforward; he designed the image of the Divine Princess for Elise, completely drawing inspiration from Cixi Empress Dowager in "Tomb Raider of Dongling", dressing her in a cheongsam with high slits to reveal half her snowy thigh and wearing flower pot shoes that made her little bottom sway seductively, like the wind brushing a willow. Adding eight ivory fingernail guards to her slender fingers would make them look like ghostly claws; as for binding into golden lotus feet, since the girl already had small feet, Liu decided against it.

The biggest trouble was that Elise had a head of gemstone-blue curls, which are not quite suitable for straightening and wearing a traditional headdress.

Liu thought up a crude method, preparing to use egg whites to straighten her curls on the day, since hair slicked with egg whites is impeccably neat, and not even a fly could land without breaking its legs.

Liu had seen a few village rascals do this to attract the attention of village girls when he watched outdoor movies in the countryside.

However, while egg whites are powerful styling agents, there was one downside — once it dried and flaked off, it would look like falling snow. But that wasn’t Liu’s concern anymore.

"Fine, you call the shots here, I’ll listen to you," Elise nodded her head.

"There’s another thing I’d like you to do for me, dear Divine Princess! During the ’Broad Cold Moon Shadow Ritual’ next month, grant me the title ’Peerless God alongside the Characters’!" Liu Zhenhan declared shamelessly.

This was something he’d learned from his brother. During their childhood, when joking about what if his brother became Emperor, his brother would pat Liu’s head with a grand gesture and say: ’Peerless King, side by side with the characters’!