Chapter 1712 - 1265: The Junior’s Partner

The setting sun sinks, the red moon hangs high, and the crimson night shrouds the land. In the garden venue of Westminster Cathedral, Vice-Director Saire of the Blood Tears looks up to see the red moon that has dominated the night sky for 1668 years, now surrounded by countless tiny yet dazzling stars.

To ordinary people, it’s just casual chatter, but only the two Blood Moon clans who rule this land understand that it represents a shift of supreme power.

However, no one is saddened by this. In the four ’occupied’ nations, only the Kingdom of Blood Moon did not resist at all, and everyone calmly accepted the rule of Dazzling Star, including the two tribes under the Extreme Master of Blood Moon.

No need to mention the Moon Shadow Clan; their innocent and simple nature lacks the complex concept of ’loyalty.’ They’re always positive and optimistic like carefree pets, but they’re not the pets of the Extreme Master of Blood Moon; they’re the pets of Blood Moonians... They have genuine goodwill towards everyone, most are members of the Church of Sincere Love spreading warmth, and a few join the Crime Hunting Hall to protect citizens. So, as long as Dazzling Star doesn’t harm Blood Moonians and allows them to continue caring for everyone, the Moon Shadow Clan doesn’t care who rules the kingdom.

Compared to the innate Moon Shadow Clan, the Blood Saint Clan, who have undergone rigorous trials to transition into their race, generally exhibit the opposite extreme in personality. Even the most passionate Meiwa becomes more selfish and indifferent after becoming part of the Blood Saint Clan. Naturally, they have no concept of loyalty and are more cowardly and afraid of death. Moreover, under the guidance of the Extreme Master of Blood Moon, most Blood Saint Clan members are researchers, with only a few secretly ruling the kingdom. Although they’re the largest violent group in the Kingdom of Blood Moon, they’re surprisingly tame and timid. Facing the superior force of the Supreme Dazzling Star and its gradual reform plan, the Blood Saint Clan instantly recognized where true wisdom lies.

As for ordinary people, it’s even more straightforward. In the highly atomized Blood Moon Society, the concept of a nation doesn’t even exist, let alone the concept of family.

Even if the Extreme Master of Blood Moon died, everyone’s first reaction would just be, ’Good riddance, meow.’

"Although it’s not the first time I’ve seen it, every time is quite surprising."

Cleos, wearing an evening gown and holding a plate, walked over and said, "Why does the Gospel see a normal silver moon, but when they come here, they see a blood moon?"

"It’s the wonder of the Extreme Master of Blood Moon," said Saire. "According to the Blood Moon Records, the Extreme Master of Blood Moon possesses some true powers of the moon but can’t truly control the moon, so the Blood Moon can only be manifested in our kingdom. If we say the six nations are six wells, we are all frogs at the bottom of the well, then the Extreme Master of Blood Moon placed a red mirror at the well’s mouth."

"Is this something you can tell me?"

"You could spend an afternoon with the Church of Sincere Love, and those tail-wagging folks would eagerly tell you everything the Extreme Master of Blood Moon likes... The Extreme Master doesn’t care what we say. Although I’ve never seen our forefathers, I feel that He should be smarter and more cunning than any Blood Saint Clan member, yet also carefree and straightforward like the Moon Shadow Clan, disliking hiding things. I think He treats us all as pets, so as pets, He naturally doesn’t mind exposing His true self..."

Cleos hesitated for a moment and cautiously asked, "Are you... reminiscing?"

No wonder Cleos was so cautious because not long ago, a joint rebellion occurred in the Paradise Kingdom and Earth Abyss Realm... Compared to the two Blood Moon Gospel traitors, Paradise Abyss made the world understand anew what ’loyalty and righteousness’ meant. Ever since the five nations merged half a year ago, the rebellion has never stopped, even alerting the Sword Law Angel of the Kingdom of Stars, who, with one sword, instantly killed the leader of the rebel army, momentarily calming things down. But recently, it’s been stirring again, seemingly testing if the Earth Angel is still on earth.

Therefore, anyone daring to reminisce about the old Divine Lord now sends a very dangerous signal.

As the Gospel’s law enforcement officer stationed in Blood Moon, Cleos is mainly responsible for adjudicating the Gospel’s public order affairs in Blood Moon. After all, the five nations have only recently merged, and many matters are unpolished; whether it’s foreigners committing crimes or foreigners encountering crimes, everyone is dealing with these for the first time, so they can only figure it out as they go, leading to the emergence of the law enforcement officer role.

Law enforcement officers must strive to uphold justice while also maintaining the interests of their own country, further complicated by diplomatic issues, making it a very troublesome position, so this job ended up with Cleos, who ranked first in the Red Hat annual assessment.

Saire and Cleos actually met quite unexpectedly. They actually encountered each other in the Dream Stairs, recognized each other, and teamed up to fight in the Void Realm for a night, becoming more familiar in reality afterward. This situation has a professional term called "Virtual Friends," referring to mages who can meet in the Void Realm, destined friends by fate, and they found their compatibility was indeed high after interacting.

But friends are friends; if Saire wanted to incite rebellion, Cleos would immediately turn away. She represents Gospel Yisu and can’t get involved in Blood Moon’s troubles.

"I do miss it a bit," Saire tilted her head and smiled, "but I’m not dumb enough to commit suicide, don’t worry."

"Although I didn’t have much affection for the old Blood Moon system, having gotten used to it over decades, suddenly turning 180° and abandoning all previous concepts does make me feel somewhat melancholic."

Cleos understood her feelings well. Unlike the calm and peaceful Gospel, wanting to implement the Dazzling Star noble system required Blood Moon to undergo drastic reforms to its fundamental system, namely the "Bloodline Prohibition Law."

The core of the noble system is ’loyalty to the star cluster and deep love for the country,’ but without a nation, there can be no home. The Blood Moonian, with no concept of patriotism at all due to the lack of family ties, poses a significant challenge to the Stars Blessing—it’s not about creating noble loyalty out of thin air but prioritizing any inherent ’patriotic loyalty’ within the noble’s heart. If there’s no patriotism, then it fuses their family love with patriotism. These selfish and obstinate Blood Moonians required forceful measures.

Additionally, there was the strong dissatisfaction from the other four nations towards Blood Moon.

Unrelated to interests, but purely because Blood Moonian societal phenomena like ’unified child-rearing in nurseries’ and ’completely severing parental ties’ made the four nations extremely uncomfortable, giving the impression of a nation seizing children from parents.

If the Blood Moon still doesn’t reform, then in the eyes of the other four nations, the Blood Moon is the ’Evil Country’ at the bottom of the chain of disdain.

That’s why this wedding is so important, because it’s the key turning point where the Kingdom of Blood Moon completely abandons the traditional culture it has persisted in for 1668 years, choosing to join the family of five nations. Tonight is actually a politically significant declaration.

Cleos is present here tonight as an invited Evangelist Military Attaché to witness the event, and besides her, diplomats from other countries are also present.

The host of the wedding has just the right amount of prestige, Crime Hunting Hall Captain and Holy Sanctuary Mage Gerard, as a well-known figure in the Kingdom of Blood Moon, it doesn’t seem abrupt for the special envoys from the four countries to attend his wedding. Furthermore, tomorrow his wedding will surely become headline news, sweeping through all levels of the Kingdom of Blood Moon and thoroughly convincing the common people of the bankruptcy of the bloodline prohibition law. If it were a legendary Blood Saint from behind the scenes getting married, it wouldn’t have such good promotional effect.

The only problem is that Gerard’s spouse is actually...

Cleos changed the subject: "Speaking of which, even I’m wearing an evening gown, why are you still dressed in a nun’s outfit?"

"Because it’s quite sexy." Sereia chuckled lightly, the Blood Moon necklace she wore slid into her deep cleavage as she leisurely said, "I have been celibate for a while, and tonight I want to take this opportunity to see what delicacies there are. I’ve never tried doing it at someone else’s wedding before... care to join?"

"I’ll pass." Cleos couldn’t quite handle the lascivious atmosphere of the Blood Moon people; last time she was pulled by Sereia into a mud spa and had to flee in awkwardness after ordering just one drink. Though she dared not go all the way, she did enjoy a good dirty joke, "Do you have a target?"

"Let me see... oh?"

Sereia glanced at the guests gathered around a table, where her junior was leading a group of people while chatting with a rather delectable-looking young man. It was the first time she had seen her junior get along so well with the opposite sex, though to her knowledge, the junior had no other friends besides Meiwa.

With her ample experience, Sereia keenly deduced that the junior had recently been ’nourished,’ so the answer was clear... that young man was her junior’s bedfellow!

Food snatched from others is all the more delicious.

She gracefully maneuvered through the venue and elegantly greeted them, "Junior, good evening."

"Senior?" Siflin noticed Sereia’s saintly nun demeanor and immediately knew what this Blood Saint nun was plotting, "I’m busy here—"

"Junior, it’s rare to see a friend who makes you so happy; let me meet them too." Sereia smiled at the young man, lowering her head to greet him, "Hello, I’m Siflin’s senior, Sereia."

Contrary to her nature, she was very reserved and polite when seducing prey, without a hint of allure in her speech or expression. But with her appearance combined with the nun’s outfit that perfectly outlined her sinful figure, the more conservatively saintly she acted, the more it provoked a desire to desecrate holiness. That’s why she loved the nun’s outfit so much— it was her invincible man-slaying attire.

She was confident the junior’s bedfellow would soon find an excuse to rendezvous with her, when she heard the young man say, "Since you’re 222’s senior, you must be trustworthy, right?"

"What does it matter if she isn’t?" said the maid holding a wine glass behind him, "What could she possibly do?"

There’s a lot I can do... Sereia glanced up at the young man, only to find his previously indistinct face becoming clear. Wait, was his face always unclear before, why didn’t I notice?

Quickly, her mind was flooded with overwhelming terror. She stood stunned before that very familiar yet strange face, too frightened to speak for a moment. Strange because this was indeed their first meeting, familiar because she had already seen his face through various channels.

"If you need anything, don’t hesitate to ask," Sereia took a deep breath and said with a respectful attitude, "It is a great honor for Sereia to meet you."

"That’s too much praise." Ash extended his hand with a smile, "Nice to meet you, but we have 222 to guide us, thank you for your kindness."

"Of course." Sereia did not hesitate at all; after shaking his hand, she left decisively.

Cleos was a bit puzzled when she returned so quickly, "Why are you back so soon? Not interested in eating anymore?"

"If I didn’t come back now, it would have been too late." Sereia looked at the hand that had just touched Ash, her legs pressed tightly together as her face flushed with heat, "It’s already... enough."

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