"How... is she?"
"Her condition is relatively stable, much better than last time."
Kira looked somewhat haggard; she hadn't closed her eyes since last night.
Although she hadn't participated in the battle, her magic power was truly exhausted.
Fatigue had taken over her body, and the only reason she could stay awake was that her sister was still sleeping, and she was worried about her.
"Your Highness, please rest first; your current state is not good either."
Luna gently closed the door to Leticia's room and came into the living room, "Her Majesty's condition is much better than last time, and the deep sleep shouldn't last long, so rest assured."
"And Malanie, you should also go back first. I'm here, so there's no need to worry."
Luna said to Melanie, who was equally exhausted. This famous Sword Saint looked very disheveled at the moment, with several large tears in her clothes and obvious wound marks on the skin beneath them.
Although they had healed, the faint redness silently told of the difficulty of that battle.
Luna couldn't even imagine what kind of terrifying opponent Melanie and Leticia had faced to be able to force them to such a state while working together.
Leticia was forced to burn herself, and Melanie was also quite badly injured.
These two, who could be called the strongest in the world, had actually ended up in such a wretched state despite joining forces; it was truly astonishing.
"Sister Luna, I want to have a word with Sister Bai alone, is that okay?" Kira said to Luna.
Perhaps it was time to find some helpers, especially powerful ones like Melanie.
Otherwise, relying only on herself and her sister, they would have almost no ability to fight back in front of the gods.
"...All right." Since Kira had said so, Luna naturally had no reason to refuse.
With Leticia currently unconscious, Kira was the highest Authority in the house, and as a maid, Luna certainly could not question her master's command.
Although, theoretically, Kira had no jurisdiction over Luna.
Luna was Leticia's maid, and only Leticia's maid.
"Thank you, Sister Luna." Kira also understood that she didn't actually have the right to command Luna, so she was quite polite.
Kira and Luna were not very close.
Luna returned to her room and locked the door from the inside, leaving the living room to Melanie and Kira.
"Sister Bai, do you want to know why I wanted to get this 'Research on Divine Era Magic' so much?" Pointing to the small booklet on the table, Kira asked a question with an obvious answer.
If Melanie didn't want to know, there would be no need for her to go with Leticia to see Kira, right?
"In Leticia's words, there's nothing useful recorded in this book." Melanie nodded; she did want to know the answer to this question, especially now after encountering someone who claimed to be a god.
With a complex expression, Kira picked up the book from the table, "Because this is just a disguise; if you don't master the method of interpretation, it's just an ordinary book of myths."
Her fingertips lit up with a faint shimmer, and as she gently traced the page, it emitted a weak golden light.
The golden light gradually covered the entire research book, and when it dissipated, what appeared before Melanie's eyes was a completely different-looking book.
"This is the true appearance of the research book. Of course, its common name is actually the Prophecy Book." Kira said softly, "This is the first volume of the Prophecy Book, and also the most important one."
"The Prophecy Book among the demons is the second volume, and the one with the elves is the third volume..."
"What does it... prophesy?" Melanie frowned; she suddenly felt that things were getting serious.
Kira knew a lot about this matter, and according to her, other races also knew about the Prophecy Book, but the humans knew absolutely nothing about it.
"The return of the gods." Kira said in a deep voice.
"Gods..."
"Once upon a time, our world had gods." Kira nodded; the Mist God they encountered was one of those countless gods.
That was a very, very long time ago. Before there were races like humans, demons, or elves on the land, the world belonged to the gods.
The gods attacked each other on the land; the strong defeated the weak and devoured the Authority of the weak.
It was an arena where only the strongest god could stand out and become the master of this world.
At that time, the victorious god could create their own kin, just like their countless predecessors.
"Things should have been this way, but one day, a different kind of god appeared." Kira told Melanie the story she knew in detail, "Please forgive me for using the term 'god' to describe Him; compared to those sealed gods, that one can be considered a true god."
"He was disgusted by this bloody and cruel war, so He personally negotiated a peace strategy with the most powerful gods at the time, but those gods, who considered themselves invincible, ignored His proposal."
"I don't know what happened after that, but the final result was that the War of the Gods came to an abrupt end, and all the gods disappeared."
This world suddenly entered the era of mortals from the era of gods.
No one knows how humans, demons, and elves appeared; perhaps it was natural evolution, or perhaps it was seeds left behind by the gods. In any case, life appeared.
"Our world was originally supposed to be one, but for some reason, we were separated into different worlds, and it wasn't until a few decades ago that we discovered each other's existence."
"As the worlds gradually merge, the seal of that god has also begun to loosen, and some sealed ancient gods have started to extend their tentacles, attempting to continue the bloody and cruel war from countless years ago."
After saying this, Kira picked up her cup and took a sip of water.
She felt that Melanie needed time to digest what she had just said.
Melanie did indeed need time to digest it; she had originally thought that other races were the greatest threat to humanity, but now this so-called god had popped up.
Are the gods the real threat to humanity?
"If that's the case, why don't you tell humans about this? We could cooperate." Melanie didn't understand why Kira had to use the method of buying to bring the human Prophecy Book back to the demon realm; why make it so complicated when it could just be explained clearly?
Melanie's question made Kira chuckle, "Sister Bai, if a demon told you that humans and demons should join forces to fight the gods from mythology, would you believe it?"
Melanie was silent for a long time, then shook her head.
She would not believe it.
If Kira wasn't Leticia's sister and a good friend of her own sister, she wouldn't have believed Kira either.
Even if Kira were a princess of the demon race, she wouldn't believe her.
That decades-long war had worn away the last remnants of trust between the various races, and now they were more like they were in a temporary truce.
As soon as the time is ripe, the great war will break out again.