The fog covered the open area, and nearby animals ran as the mist got thicker and thicker. The dragon lord is floating in the air as fog covers him.
Princess Louise held her hand tightly in her other hand while Hera's head rested in her lap. As she stares, she speaks up gently.
"Demigod…? But my mother was a human, and my father is a god… Then how am I a demigod?"
The dragon lord blinked as it looked at Hera and Louise. The claws of the dragon closed as if it were holding the mist like a rope.
"Demigod doesn't mean having one parent god… You were born with powers… which are godly… That's why you got the title of demigod."
The dragon lord flies high while Louise keeps looking, and from her point of view, it feels like the Azure dragon is climbing upward with the help of a mist cloud.
"Go find your purpose… Your journey awaits. May we meet again…"
And afterward, the dragon disappears in the mist, and the mist in the sky slowly starts to disappear. Princess Louise was fully focused on what had just happened.
Hera's horse pushes Louise's head a little, taking her out of her thoughts. Louise shifted her focus on Hera and hurriedly put her right hand on her face.
She tried to wake her up, but Hera didn't wake up. She then put her hand on her forehead, and after some time, Hera opened her eyes.
Her eyes were completely red, and her skin color was clear; she started taking breath heavily. Louise helped her sit properly, and then she calmed down.
Hera's eyes turn normal. She looked toward Louise and then burst out laughing.
"Pffth, reaching immortality using you as a vessel… Your father has many crazy ambitions."
Louise seemed completely confused, as if she heard something inaudible. She bonks Hera's shoulder and then stands up while getting close to the horse.
"Stand up; we are going to the city or village or whatever."
Here she stands up a while cleaning up her clothes, and afterward holds the lead of the horse and climbs it. Louise climbed onto the horse and settled herself before Hera started riding the horse.
After some time, they reached the mountains, and as they got close, the sunlight got dimmer. Hera slows down the horse while keeping moving forward.
"After we cross this mountain, we will reach the city of culture, Qinglang. This is the independent city of Qinghai province."
Louise looked completely excited while also thinking about the dragon. As she was about to ask some questions, Hera spoke with a straight face.
"Nope, don't ask me… We'll reach the city, and then you will ask Lady Anastasia all of your questions."
Louise nodded as she narrowed her eyes toward the mountain.
In the city of Qinglang, a moment before Hera and Louise arrive…
In the market area of the city, the crowd was normal as usual; people buy things, go here and there, and are busy with their work.
On the opposite side of the market, a road passes through where horse carriages come and go. As the long market road goes, it ends near the residential area.
At the end of the market, there is one of the most popular restaurants. People sit in the outside area of the restaurant, talking to each other and eating.
The restaurant looks completely normal, made out of wood from the outside. And from inside, most of the work was done by stone, but it was covered with wooden planks.
People sit quietly doing their own things while eating, and most people come and go. On the second-to-last table inside the restaurant, a man sits quietly drinking his glass of wine while in deep thought.
His long black hair hung beside the chair while his head was covered with a long straw hat.
He sips from a glass and puts it down on the table. He looked in the glass with his deep green eyes and saw his reflection in the yellow wine.
"Hmm, Anastasia left in a hurry… Interesting, so the city is under the control of Qilin. A better opportunity to shift the plan."
He stood up from his place and went to the counter to pay the bill. Afterward, he came out of the restaurant while holding his straw hat in his left hand.
As he steps foot in crowded places and vanishes in them without any trace.
Meanwhile, in the control center of Qinglang City…
Hera and Louise get off the horse after entering the control center of the city. Outside of the whole city, this place looks more tech-advanced and futuristic.
Louise found herself lost in those white marble colors, and the shaped plate was put on the floor. Hera returns toward Louise after giving her horse's lead to guard.
"Crazy interesting, isn't it? Like outside the control center, only a normal old-vibe city. That's just how Anastasia is."
Louise nodded as she examined the control center and was completely lost in those futuristic tools being used in the whole control center's building.
"Let's get inside."
As Hera says, she grabs Louise's hand and moves toward the door of the control center. The guard bows a little as they see Hera, and then the guard speaks in a little louder voice.
"Welcome, Lady Hera, but Lady Anastasia isn't available at the moment. She left some minutes ago."
Hera nodded as she looked toward Louise with a smile. "Let's go inside and wait for her, Louise."
Princess Louise shook her head as she looked up toward the battery supply pole standing in front of the entrance to the Control Center.
The guard opens the door while only touching the door; the door opens, Hera moves on, and Louise follows her.
Meanwhile, at the same time, somewhere in the cosmos…
Near a black hole, a portal opens out of nowhere, and from that portal, Anastasia and Naiadine come out. Afterward, the portal disappeared as if it had never been open.
Anastasia moves toward the black hole and stands mid-space while holding her hand with the other. Her deep brown hair feels like being pulled by the gravity of a black hole.
She turned around toward Naiadine and looked at the star shining like a dot behind her in the dark cosmos. Naiadine watches the shining star in Anastasia's brown eyes.
This is the place where I got signals of those outsider presences… Don't know if Hyacinth or Death has something to do with it.
Naiadine moves around and goes near Anastasia while putting her hand on Anastasia's shoulder.
Didn't you say that presence is from the past… like about 300,000 years old… And remember this, too, Anastasia, that presence seems familiar, but to whom none of us know.
Anastasia put her hand on Naiadine's head while rubbing her silver hair gently. She stares into Naiadine's watery blue eyes.
And that much old presence—it's the same number of years since humanity first ever committed a crime… and after some years from this, Lilith was born…
As Anastasia rubbed Naiadine's head, it caused a big black hole-type portal to open far away from them both.
Thanks to your primordial body's power, I've created this portal for you to go on and try your best to find out what happened, and until then, I'll look into the threads of fate…
Naiadine nodded and moved toward the giant black hole-type portal. As she got closer, she looked back at Anastasia with a side eye, and then she got absorbed by the portal completely.