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"I am loyal to the Lord, do I need a reason?"
Don't you need one?
Lin Ruo blinked, looking at the proud and unrestrained Medici in front of him. Feeling the matter-of-factness in his words, Lin Ruo suddenly felt his question was pointless.
For Medici, perhaps he truly didn't need a reason?
Or perhaps, being subdued and taken home back then was the reason itself?
Lin Ruo didn't know, but he could roughly guess how he became a Angel of Judgment under the Ancient Sun God after being taken home back then. Putting himself in his shoes, Lin Ruo felt that with the Ancient Sun God's current displayed charisma, it seemed perfectly normal for Medici, who was still very young when he was subdued by Him and taken home by Him, to be loyal to Him later on.
"And then, what was the first battle you participated in after following the Lord?" Lin Ruo simply stopped dwelling on that question, quickly changed to another, and asked excitedly.
"When I followed the Lord, the Lord was just fighting against the Dragon race, so I also followed the Lord to conquer the Dragon race…"
Medici was clearly not a good storyteller, lacking Lin Ruo's ability to make a simple story vivid and engaging. But even so, when Medici described the story of the Silver City Creator's campaign against the Dragon race back then, it was still quite exciting.
At least, it was much more exciting than the dry records in the ancient texts of Silver City. After all, this was the personal experience of a participant. Many things that were only briefly mentioned in ancient texts, only the participants would know the specific details and could describe that thrilling sensation.
Such a story was much more interesting than a dry line like "So-and-so killed So-and-so" from the Silver City ancient texts.
Lin Ruo listened with interest. Seeing that the time was right, he cupped his chin with one hand and said, "What about me? I remember you and I were partners back then, when did you start partnering with me?"
Although he already knew how he met the Ancient Sun God, how he was taken home by the Ancient Sun God, and how he was given to Medici to look after by the Ancient Sun God, Lin Ruo was truly unclear about the specific time he became a Angel of Judgment. Of course, he wanted to take this opportunity to find out.
It would be even better if he could learn more from Medici!
Lin Ruo admitted that as more fragments of his memories regarding the Ancient Sun God and the Kings of Angels recovered, he became increasingly curious about the story of those years.
It wasn't entirely for the sake of recovering memories; it was also due to Lin Ruo's curiosity, which had been piqued as if he were following a series.
Lin Ruo was a person who loved stories, and he had a premonition that his past must be a very exciting story.
Hearing this question, Medici looked at Lin Ruo without surprise, his gaze practically screaming, "I knew you little rascal were trying to trick me into talking."
However, even though he saw through Lin Ruo's true intention of learning about himself through Medici, Medici continued, "You were brought back after the Lord defeated the Dragon of Imagination. At that time, that Two-Five Dragon also joined us with you, so there were many rumors about you back then."
"Rumors? What kind of rumors?" Lin Ruo immediately became interested. Of course, he also knew some rumors about himself, such as being an Incarnation of the Creator, which was due to the characteristics of his Beyonder power.
But if they were rumors that spread when he was first brought back, they should have nothing to do with that, right?
Medici gave Lin Ruo a meaningful look and said with a smile, "At that time, among the rumors about you, the most widely spread one was—you were the Lord's illegitimate child who had been left outside."
"Huh?" Lin Ruo was stunned for a moment, his expression becoming a bit strange. "No, how could there be such a rumor? I was brought back after the Lord killed the Dragon of Imagination, Ankewelt. Even if there were rumors, shouldn't they be related to the Dragon race? And I'm also from the Dragon pathway."
"The rumor about the illegitimate child was probably because you were personally cared for by the Lord after you were brought back, you looked very young, and your appearance was quite similar to the Lord…" Medici didn't keep him in suspense, his tone unhurried. Perhaps he was recalling something interesting, as a hint of nostalgia appeared in his eyes.
"Actually, this rumor spread for a long time, and it only gradually subsided after you became Little Crow's godfather."
Because a brother can't be a younger brother's godfather, right!
Lin Ruo complained in his heart, his attention immediately falling on the first thing Medici said— "I look very similar to the Creator?"
Lin Ruo recalled the Ancient Sun God's face he had seen in his memories, and then recalled the face he often saw in the mirror, not Rudy's, but his own face, and suddenly froze.
Because Lin Ruo suddenly realized with shock that they indeed looked very similar, and not only that…
"No, that's not right. My face… I'm clearly a Chinese person, but my face…"
As if waking from a dream, Lin Ruo widened his eyes. He pulled out a small mirror from his pocket and looked at the face in the mirror, which, though it had black hair and black eyes, definitely had Western features. His eyes were filled with shock.
"This isn't my face… No, this is…"
Just like when he discovered the time issue before his Transmigration, some mist was suddenly cleared away. Lin Ruo suddenly realized that the face he had been using, the face he believed to be his true appearance, was actually not his original appearance.
He was a pure Chinese person, and his features were typically Eastern. Although he was still handsome, it was definitely a different style of handsomeness than his current one.
The face he was currently using, although one could vaguely see the shadow of his former face on it, no one would ever think it was the same person. At the same time, the features of this face were indeed very similar to the Silver City Creator. It felt to Lin Ruo as if he had created his current face after referencing both his own face and the Silver City Creator's face.
And before today, Lin Ruo had never realized that his previous appearance and current appearance were different. It was as if his perception in this regard had been distorted. He looked at himself in the mirror and never noticed anything amiss, until today, when Medici's reminder finally made him feel as if he had just woken from a long dream.
"I should have thought of it earlier… Before the Western Continent was unsealed, there were no Easterners in this world at all. If I still had my original face, I would have been too conspicuous in a crowd, yet none of the people I knew ever questioned my appearance…"
Lin Ruo closed his eyes. He knew that this distortion must also be the result of "himself," a deliberate action.
And this face might have been created by himself, or it might have been caused by some accident.
As for why the Spirit Body would also become like this, just look at Klein. Zhou Mingrui did not look like Klein, but after his Transmigration, his Spirit Body still transformed into Klein's appearance.
But why would he distort his own cognition like this?
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