Mythology Rebooted
Chapter 260 - 140 If you feel the weight on your journey, someone must be riding on your peaceful years

Chapter 260: Chapter 140 If you feel the weight on your journey, someone must be riding on your peaceful years

September 28th.

Lando Manor, bookroom.

It should be noted that the Lando Family has many bookrooms. Aside from the main house, Veronica’s private villa alone has three bookrooms.

The villa currently under construction for Young Master Wayne also has three bookrooms.

Noble families have many rules; the bound Bible is thick, and when it comes to bookrooms, having so many is a matter of taste, and not merely for showing off wealth.

It’s not because the house has too many rooms and without a few added bookrooms, spare rooms would be left unoccupied.

If one considers bookrooms as drawing rooms, different grades of bookrooms correspond to different levels of guests: strangers, ordinary friends, business partners, good friends, close buddies, and distinguished guests. The Butler will lead guests to the corresponding bookroom based on their status.

The lord and lady of the house have their private bookrooms separate from the drawing rooms, which even distinguished guests cannot enter, generally used for family members to discuss important matters.

Like today, Butler Megan stood at the door of the lady’s bookroom, pricking up her ears to eavesdrop on the conversation inside.

She has always been able to eavesdrop.

Inside the bookroom, Hefei set up a soundproof barrier, sneakily, and even drew the curtains.

Wayne rolled his eyes. With Old Login’s informants outside, Teacher, by doing this, you are bound to cause misunderstandings where there were none.

Let us draw back the curtains, there’s nothing to hide.

"I have here an unseen treasure, specially prepared for you," said Hefei, raising an eyebrow, intending to surprise her student.

Using her own magic power as the key, she took out a wooden box from a secret compartment in the bookroom, the size of a makeup box, beautifully carved and inset with an emerald.

Wayne leaned in, sniffing out the scent of opportunity.

Since it was from his own teacher, he guessed that the treasure in the box wasn’t the one he had lost many years ago, so it was unlikely that today he’d recover his old possession.

Hefei opened the wooden box, a green light burst forth, bathing Wayne’s face in a verdant glow.

Like the classic serving of a dish, the chef’s white phosphorus had run out, and the light faded away.

As the green light gradually diminished, Wayne saw the treasure in the wooden box: a card framed like a picture, palm-sized, depicting a lush, beautifully crowned tree with vigorous roots.

What kind of treasure is this, it’s only a card.

Wayne looked puzzledly at Hefei, who, with a self-satisfied hook of her lip, said, "A treasure brought back by sister from Paris; I put a lot of effort into getting it."

Seeing that Wayne was still clueless, Hefei dropped the riddles and bluntly said, "The cards are a set, said to be forged by the Goddess herself, treasured by the Naturalism Church Headquarters, but unfortunately got lost. The Church has spent hundreds of years and still hasn’t gathered them all."

So what, the Nature Goddess is also a card player?

With rainbow colors and angular looks, she immediately seems like someone who knows how to play cards?

Wayne muttered internally and whispered, "Teacher, this is a holy relic of the Church. Is it really okay to keep it private?"

"What does it matter if no one knows, it doesn’t count as private possession," Hefei replied without a shred of guilt.

To get this card, she didn’t know how many enemies she had sacrificed, giving them to the Church; otherwise, their blood would have been spilled in vain.

She’s confident; Wayne decided to trust her this time, especially since she was his teacher. As a student, Wayne resolved to follow his teacher’s example: in the future, if he found treasures, he would certainly not turn them over either.

Hefei truly had no regrets. In the years she withdrew from the Holy Maiden election, she was sidelined and ignored, treated like a lackey everywhere she went, her position in the Church depending solely on her husband’s reputation.

With pride like hers, she swore to personally reclaim everything she had lost and plunged headfirst into the Scalpel Organization, working on its most perilous front lines.

Her decision not to turn over the card was motivated by this mentality.

According to Hefei, the Church’s unjust treatment of her came first, her holding on to the sacred object came after, at the root of it all, it was the Church’s fault. She wasn’t attacking her own faith or taking revenge on the Church, nor was it pettiness. She was simply seeking justice for herself.

Wayne nodded seriously, agreeing that the teacher was right; it wasn’t about being petty. Anyone would seek a bit of revenge.

If he were treated the same way, he’d do more than just withhold the holy objects; he’d dare to pose as the Devil and empty out the Church’s storeroom.

"Your Essence of Life has already been integrated, and the next step is to dissect the void. I will condense into Divine Power; just like integrating the Essence of Life, this process is extremely difficult and must be aided by external forces."

Hefei reiterated the significance of ’divine’. Divine is faith, the guide for mages, stemming from the void, the self, and closely connected to the mage’s thoughts as well as learned knowledge.

Ordinary mages dissecting the void and condensing into divine would only need a predecessor to guide them, but with Wayne’s bloodline being so powerful, even with Hefei’s confidence in her own abilities, she dared not guarantee there wouldn’t be any risks throughout the process.

If something went wrong with the child, stopping at silver and never advancing, it would leave Veronica in a position of no recourse.

Veronica: She would laugh.

"Your Essence of Life is too powerful, ordinary forces cannot dissect your Hexagram, and you must rely on holy objects," Hefei instructed solemnly.

"I will help guide you. Through the Divine Power contained in the holy object, we will reorganize your void, self, and during this process, you are not just a bystander. Calm your mind and thoroughly feel it. The Hexagram breaking through the silver phase is very important; you might comprehend faith magic unique to yourself," Hefei said firmly.

Wayne nodded solemnly and sat cross-legged on the couch.

This posture, at first strange to Hefei, had now become a familiar sight. She placed the wooden box in Wayne’s hands: "Hold the card and follow the practice formula I’ve taught you. Use your magic power to strike the void, self. Sister will guide divine power into your body, and with your talent, if luck is on your side..."