(This is the third update! Written up front, if you haven’t noticed the first two updates, please flip back and take a look!)
"Owena?"
Even Brand racked his brains but couldn’t find the origin of this name in his memory, let alone anyone else. Only Romantic stammered and asked, "Why, why are you impersonating me!?"
Owena glanced at Romantic, slightly startled: "I see."
"Eh? What do you mean?" Miss Merchant was stunned.
Lightning Girl turned around, frowning while looking at Brand on the ground: "The authority you possess seems inherited from the Truth Society, yet you clearly have higher authority. It’s bizarre... Let me see, it’s strange; you have Gaia’s Will’s aura on you."
She turned back and scanned everyone, but her gaze paused only on William. The Great Mage of the Silver Alliance frowned, speechless, seemingly lost in thought. However, Owena’s eyes brightened slightly when she saw Frey.
"A descendant of the War Goddess Guard, I didn’t expect this bloodline to still exist in the world." She said with slight admiration.
Of course, Brand heard the words of Lightning Girl, but he felt as if he were listening to gibberish. The terms Owena used were ones he had never heard, even through all his past gaming experience, which contained not a word on this subject.
He frowned: "Ma’am, who exactly are you? Are you a Heroic Spirit; whose will do you represent?"
"Me?" Lightning Girl took a step forward, raising her chin: "Human, according to your way of recording, you should call me the Sky Blue Knight."
The Sky Blue Knight.
These five words resounded in Brand’s mind, and he opened his mouth but momentarily seemed to have lost the ability to speak.
The others were probably no better off, possibly worse. Medisha nearly let her long spear slip to the ground, and Macaro behind Princess couldn’t stop muttering: "This is impossible... This is impossible..."
In front of them stood the one who shattered the Sky Dome, caused the stars to fall, and ushered in the mortal epoch, the Sky Blue Knight.
If asked what the most famous heroic epic in the history of the Amber Sword is, it would surely be the Poem of the Blue, and of which segment is most widely spread, it would undoubtedly be the legend of the Sky Blue Knight.
That was the progenitor of all knight epics, and countless stories were fabricated by future generations based on this legend, with shadows of this legendary figure found in nearly all knights’ fantasies.
But she turned out to be a female?
For a moment, everyone found it hard to accept, except Romantic, who, after figuring out she wasn’t being impersonated, curiously asked: "But why do you and I look exactly alike?"
"The flow of historical time is as quiet as a long river; among millions of stars, there will always be two so similar. It’s merely a coincidence." Lightning Girl answered with a low voice.
Brand felt that this lady was speaking nonsense, so he asked: "Sir Knight, can you explain the meaning of what you said earlier?"
Owena glanced at him, then replied: "What I said, you heard if you heard it. What I haven’t said, I won’t rashly tell you. In this world, all secrets come with a price."
"What kind of price is required, then?" Brand asked with furrowed brows. In the game, players were always trying to solve a puzzle, the final path to the Power of Existence. But clearly, no one had ever succeeded, yet Brand faintly felt that the term Owena mentioned earlier might be related to that ultimate door.
Because ever since the Babel Fortress collapsed, ancient knowledge was lost upon the Earth, and the power of existence was recorded no more. Since then, neither Gold’s people nor silver’s people had truly opened that door.
Even the exalted Dragon Clan stopped at the peak of the Golden Body.
Brand seriously looked at Owena, but the Female Knight composed of lightning shook her head: "Regarding them, you can’t afford it; human, well then, tell me, what is your objective here?"
"Objective?" Only then did Brand come to his senses, remembering their purpose this trip: "Lord, we discovered the Sky Blue Spear you once used, and we hope to gain its recognition."
"I see." Lightning Girl nodded, looking around the entire hall: "This should be the ruins of Balbard Great Hall, you probably haven’t heard this name. What is this place considered to be for you then, and what year has the outside world reached?"