【Your approval of the other party's sincere attitude and generous actions prevented you from dwelling on Akhmar's sudden, reckless probing.】
【You temporarily ceased hostilities and returned to the Town Spirit City - Moon Maiden City - built within the Eternal Oasis by the Town Spirits and the original Tinaler people.】
【The Flower Queen greeted your return with a smile even purer and more beautiful than a water lily, congratulating you on your triumphant return, her bright eyes reflecting only your image, brimming with concealed affection.】
【When he saw the Flower Queen, Akhmar clearly displayed a look of amazement. However, when he witnessed this scene, he seemed to feel a sense of disappointment.】
It appears that throughout the Three God Era, the Flower God has always treated him as just a friend. This fellow is probably suffering from unrequited love.
【For a Demon God, emotions are not something that bind them. Akhmar quickly controlled his emotions. At your invitation, he arrived at the honeyed land surrounded by clear springs.】
【He then asked you numerous questions, attempting to overpower you with the very wisdom you are known for.】
【The result was obvious. Possessing the wisdom of the Demon Realm, you effortlessly answered all his riddles and questions.】
【Akhmar was completely convinced, believing that you were fully qualified to occupy the divine authority of this place.】
【In the process, he also explained his reason for coming: to personally confirm whether you were as wise as the songs sung by the people under his rule described, and he was correct.】
【Apart from this exchange of wisdom, there was an unexpected bonus. Akhmar was surprised to discover that you and he shared similar grand ideals: for the people to break free from divine arrangements and establish a carefree kingdom with the courage to challenge everything.】
【In this age of warring kings, finding like-minded individuals was a blessing from heaven in Akhmar's eyes. As a result, he was willing to share the royal authority with you and the Flower Queen.】
【Faced with Akhmar's friendly and enthusiastic attitude, you agreed to establish an alliance. However, because you would eventually leave this era, you did not agree to take control of the divine authority.】
【Soon, the news of the Red King's friendship with the two deities of the Eternal Oasis spread throughout the Central Land.】
【The Tinaler people and Town Spirits of Tuladura City and Moon Maiden City began to make contact with the tribes under the Red King's rule.】
【The people of the three tribes revered you as the God-King, and you were deeply worshipped by countless people, as well as by the inscrutable and mysterious Town Spirits.】
【Things took a turn. Although the three tribes coexisted harmoniously, radiating a light of reason that defied the norms of this era, unfortunately, the main theme of this era was still warring kings. Akhmar and the Flower Queen were merely outliers in this chaotic age.】
【Outside the Eternal Oasis and the Red King's domains, the people were still suffering from natural disasters and war.】
【Akhmar couldn't bear to see this. One day, he came to you and proposed ending the era of warring kings.】
【As long as other Demon Gods existed in this land who couldn't understand each other, peace would never come to the people. This would affect your simulation of the divine era until its end.】
【Therefore, you agreed to his proposal.】
【After making the decision, the other Demon Gods who had been entrenched in the Central Land soon realized that their doomsday had arrived.】
【There was no doubt that if you got serious, the other Demon Gods would be no match for you.】
【With the Holy Sword in one hand and the Holy Spear in the other, your footsteps traversed nearly half of the Central Land.】
【Every so often, the blood of a Demon God was spilled upon the yellow sand. Their corpses either dissolved deep into the earth or lay across the sand dunes.】
【The only common thread was the resentment born of their unwillingness to accept defeat, forever cursing you and your people. Only the lucky few managed to escape with their lives and enter the mysterious Dark Outer Sea.】
【Even the Grass Dragon, Apepu, who carried one of the legacies of the ancient Seven Dragon Kings, feared your power and lay dormant in the desert.】
【This war you ignited lasted for a full three hundred years.】
【When you had cleansed the majority of the Demon Gods and temporarily ended the era of warring kings, you returned.】
【The people built you a magnificent palace, adorned with jewels and gold, its one thousand and one pillars crafted by the devoutly worshipping Town Spirits.】
【They regarded you as the Lord of the World, the controller of mortals and Town Spirits, the conqueror of Demon Gods, the master of sand dunes and oases, the guide of the living and the dead, and the manipulator of the elements.】
【The Red Sand King admired your bravery, and the Flower Queen was captivated by your power.】
【Moon Maiden City was inscribed with runes of sword and spear. Wise men and prophets praised your accomplishments. Legends spread along the honeyed springs, engulfing all tribes and kingdoms.】
【Here】
【Akhmar pressed the Red Sand Staff that represented his royal authority, and Marikata lowered her veil, adorned with a purple crystal crown.】
【The Central Land finally welcomed its new master.】
【You were hailed as the God of Victory, the King of Kings.】
【The people respectfully addressed you as Bahram.】
【Your name echoed through every corner of this land. You were the one who aimed to conquer heaven and earth. Mountains and seas all obeyed your command.】
【This is how it should have been.】
【But even after three hundred years of warfare and slaughter, and with the help of Akhmar and Marikata, the two deities launching a divine war to purge heresy, there were still parts of the Central Land that you had yet to tread.】
【Just as green shoots sprout silently beneath the covering sand.】
【One day】
【A stranger arrived at Moon Maiden City. In this circular theater, she was amazed by the existence of such a heavenly kingdom on earth.】
【The Town Spirits couldn't wait to proudly inform the stranger of your achievements. After listening, she expressed the greatest respect for you.】
【However, she proudly declared that the place she came from was also a place where a god had descended. It was ruled by the wise princess, with countless wise men following her.】
【The stranger said that wherever the benevolent monarch went, a thousand moon lotuses bloomed behind her with each step. All calamities, burning fires, death, and destruction retreated before her wisdom.】
【With each breath she took, fragrant flowers bloomed in the sand, as numerous as the grains of sand in the Atho River. Even hurricanes ceased due to her song, turning into gentle breaths that blew on the delicate bells of her exquisite robes, creating a sound of refined and elegant harmony.】
【Spirit envoys, elves, humans, and creatures beyond humanity all rejoiced and lived in peace, praising her name. For she was truly the wisest and the most merciful.】
【The great Town Spirit Lilupal arrogantly interrupted the stranger's heartfelt praise, claiming she was talking nonsense. She haughtily argued that our Lord was the one and only supreme ruler, possessing wisdom that reached the depths of the abyss. Even the Queen of Gardens and the Mother of Dreamland were inferior. The so-called wise princess was nothing but the praise and self-aggrandizement of the ignorant.】
【The stranger was not angry and intended to argue her point. However, besides Lilupal, who was so arrogant that she wouldn't even consider anyone else, the others lost their will to debate, dismissing it with disdain.】
【This little incident was recounted to you as a funny story that night by Philigis, who was in charge of attending to your sleep.】
【Unlike Lilupal's arrogant disdain, you believed the stranger's words.】
【The wise princess. Through the stranger's description, you vaguely guessed the true identity of that deity.】
【An incarnation of the World Tree, or its other name.】
【The Great Merciful Tree King.】
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