Chapter VII : Explanation

After that incident, using his status Zenius summoned a horse-drawn carriage and take us to his territory in the north. We can't use portals because they only work when traveling between dimensions.

In the way, Zenius taught me how to use Keeper. If the Recorder had a quill, the Traveler had a wooden stamp that stamped the image of the sun. Zenius taught me how to take it out from the Keeper manually, I just need to open it and ask it like when I asked for the sword.

I put the stamp on the last page of the explanation about [Fire from Rosera Theater] and automatically the foreign language that for some reason I could read just disappeared.

The book page was blank again.

I stared in awe at the book and it seemed Zenius realized, he looked at me closely, I look back at him with a stiff face, "why are you looking at me?"

"Aren't you afraid?"

"Afraid of what? of you? Yes. But I know you won't kill for no reason," i explained, his expression changed, it seemed like he didn't expect me to confidently answer with those words. "I'm just thinking whether in the future I will also have to do that.."

"Kill?"

"Yes."

"Your job is only to objectify what the Keeper wants, just let me do the bad thing."

The depiction of the grim reaper changed, this might be our first time together but I was quite surprised that the man who always kept a straight face could say sweet things.

"..so who are they?"

"They're Clowner."

He answered me while staring at the outside of the carriage window.

"They're God spirits?" Zenius glanced at me briefly and nodded, his eyes seemed to be narrowed by the sunlight, I could see the reflection of his red eyes in the glass. It looks like crystal.

"They are a bunch of spirits who betray and worship the God of the Earth."

"The Earth God don't like violence and are against our work which seems to force bad events to happen. So they are there to thwart the Keeper and Locker's plans and make the Earth God the absolute leader."

"They're just a bunch of fools who don't know that yin and yang have to be complement each other or the world could be destroyed." Ho.. so The Three God siblings don't have a good relationship. The Earth God who controls this land does not like his two siblings interfering with his land and he wants rule it by himself, I understand why does he wants his world to run peacefully because seeing how brutally a spirit takes care of their work is certainly inappropriate. But I also agree with Zenius' words, yin and yang must complement each other because that is how there is reciprocity in life.

Savanya's death was an example I could think of when Zenius said that. I do hope she can lives but if it wasn't for her death then I wouldn't be here.

All paths of life have been written in destiny and I'm sure no one can't change it, no matter how hard they try including God himself.

It seems like they are targeting our books because they want to stop bad things happen. Without the Keeper and Locker, the spirits cannot know what fate wants and the story stops. They want that.

"We'll talk more about this when we arrive, get some rest."

I nodded, my eyes then looked at the sunlight which was gradually disappearing, replaced by the darkness of the snow storm. If Region IV is forever hit by summer then Region I is the north pole in this world.

The horse-drawn carriage was stopped by the gate guard, just by showing his faces briefly they immediately saluted us and letting us to enter the residential area.

This is the power of the title...

I looked at the buildings we passed, different from Region IV, here people were wearing jackets and thick clothes and there were no visible slum areas, was this because this was an area that was vulnerable to living in?

"Region I is only filled with nobles and upper middle class people, the Emperor doesn't provide a place for lower class people because you can see for yourself the situation here is difficult." He talked about the crazy weather.

"Compared to other regions, Region I is the closest to other kingdoms. Apart from protecting our borders, we use this opportunity to do business here." There are no markets along the road, but many large shops put up signs that they sell groceries, is that like minimarkets in my world? Region I looks more modern than Region IV.

Our horse-drawn carriage began to move slightly uphill, away from the city and I saw a large gate with an emblem of a horse raising one leg in the middle of the gate.

It looks like the mansion with a large garden filled with piles of snow that looks neglected is Zenius' house.

We stopped right in front of the steps that led to a large door with two doorknobs.

Zenius got off first and paid the coachman. I went down and looked up, even tho it looked neglected (the paint on the outside walls looks like it's peeling a lot and there are piles of snow in the yard, doesn't this man have servants or something?) it still looked majestic. "I live alone," he passed me and opened the main door. "I'm rarely at home so it looks dirty and messy, just think of it as your own house."

A large painting in the middle of the main stairs inside became my first attention, a man with typical noble clothes and a sharp gaze, that was Zenius von Deatje, this cold-faced man displayed his own portrait in his house? is he that narcissistic? I almost laughed if it wasn't for Zenius who had turned sharply towards me.

Damn he almost caught me, is he can read my mind... "That's a gift," he said, explaining.

"Who painted it?"

We stopped right in front of the painting, i looked at it carefully, honestly it was the cleanest thing i saw in this mansion. It was as if Zenius didn't care about the condition of his house apart from his own painting. The giver may be very special to him.

Zenius was silent, his expression seemed to be lost in thought, "my old partner," he answered in a low tone. "Orchid?" he shook his head, "the one before him."

Oh... I didn't intend to question it anymore because his eyes trembled for a moment. Zenius then continued his steps.

I took the time to look again at the painting-for some reason I feel very interested in that-before finally following Zenius who already started his house tour.

"My room is here, you can use the one next to it, it's a bit dirty so you can tidy it up as you like."

I nodded.

"Looks like it's enough for now, you can rest first, I'll call you later at dinner time and after that we can start straightening things out."

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