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Chapter 742 Academic Exchange
Later, they went not only to the clock tower on the top floor, but also to the library, the treasure vault, the princess's bedroom, the study, and many other places.

In short, I went.

And I've been there many times.

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It turns out that knowledgeable people always have relatively rich imaginations, and the unlocking actions are more diverse, some of which are even unheard of by Milo.

The princess of the city of scholars yearned for and coveted the knowledge stored in Milo's mind from various evil tomes.

That night, Milo generously satisfied her thirst for knowledge.

She was given a wealth of knowledge...

What will be recovered is the faith, or rather, the love, of this small but special dynasty.

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What made the Rus' dynasty unique was that it retained a place in almost every temple in the West, perhaps insignificant in its role, but better than nothing.

Unlike the descendants of the conquerors, the Rus' dynasty was not a race abandoned and oppressed by the gods, but a kingdom that lived well under the gods' noses.

They had no enmity with the gods, yet they did not mind turning away from them.

It must be admitted that the Scarlet Witch has an absolutely keen sense for this.

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The princess received the favor and blessings she had always dreamed of.

She offered up all the love she carried—humanity and faith.

Under the starry sky, on the moon-viewing platform, a gentle fire burned extremely brightly.

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That night, the princess conveyed many fragmented messages to Milo. The reason they were fragmented was that she could not remain conscious from beginning to end, but was constantly fluctuating between lucidity and confusion.

Those messages contained not only the will of the Eye of Thinking and the Scarlet Witch.

There are also some observations about the Rus' dynasty's pursuit of knowledge.

To Milo's slight surprise, the Ross dynasty had vaguely guessed some clues about the loss of the gods. Although it was just a wild guess, such a guess alone would be considered taboo in the Dream Realm.

This shows that these pure scholars have no sense of belonging to the gods of the Dreamland. They yearn for the great library beyond the stars. From the perspective of the traditional pantheon of the Dreamland, Ross is the real and pure heretic.

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Milo won the love of this entire nation in a very simple way.

During the fusion of body and spirit, the princess saw the same star cluster that had appeared before Milo. Looking up from the lakeside of the Aldebaran, filled with the souls of the dead, she could see the Pleiades, where the Grand Library of Serrano was located. It was so distant, yet seemed so close.

With just a fleeting glance, an entire dynasty would fall into ruin.

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This is somewhat different from the other races that the Scarlet Witch had previously proselytized.

The descendants of the conquerors of the Eastern Forbidden Zone witnessed Milo's murderous will to crush the incarnation of a god for the sake of a dead member of his clan; the Weeping Man waited desperately for Milo to grant him release; and the Rus' dynasty yearned for the stars in Milo's eyes.

What a perfect example of tailoring treatment to the individual!

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Aside from some trivial secrets about the Rus' dynasty, the princess also told Milo some theories about humanity and faith.

In the conscious world, Milo's growth is akin to subtraction. From an ordinary person to a visionary, to a high-level visionary, to the shadow, and then to the CCD, he gradually discards his humanity in the process.

Now, in the Dream Realm, he has returned to square one and must begin to add to his abilities.

Using the plunder of faith to fill the void of lost humanity, this phase actually began with Aldebaran 5. He retrieved his two broken souls from Lake Hari, restoring a part of his humanity; otherwise, Milo would still be that scumbag standing downstairs at the fire scene, talking eloquently.

Human nature was the most profound subject of study in the Rus' dynasty. Even today, they dare not presume to define it.

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"The desire for something is part of human nature; we yearn for knowledge and the stars, and thus humanity is transferred to your soul... Ah~"

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That's roughly the rhythm, all night long.

Discussing these profound questions while doing that kind of thing creates a magical pleasure—a fusion of academic atmosphere and primal animalistic instincts.

It's intoxicating and irresistible.

For a moment, Milo even understood the princess's story about a teenager in Ross who, during his first stirrings of love, would lick the hand of advanced mathematics...

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"You mean, after I'm full, I'll fall asleep and sleep straight through until dawn?"

"Yes, don't you know that after a person eats, the blood in the body is redistributed? Some blood is diverted from the brain to the gastrointestinal tract, which causes changes in blood supply to the brain, and that's when you start to feel sleepy."

"Your tone of voice is strange."

"Oh, it must be influenced by those Rus' people."

"Logically, I should have slept very soundly, but yesterday I kept feeling the table on the moon-viewing platform shaking."

"Huh—? I don't know why you're looking at me."

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The next day, Milo and Freya successfully passed through the capital city of Ross and continued their journey.

This magical encounter has come to a temporary end.

They talked about everything from the stars to the abyss, from the gods to all living things. In the end, Milo didn't even ask Princess Rose's name, and Princess Rose didn't ask Milo the same question either.

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The biggest difference is...

Yesterday, Milo was the kind of person who was as fragile as a delicate flower in a greenhouse. A princess could easily leave a row of teeth marks on him with a single bite.

But after the act of plundering faith with humanity at its core ended, the gentler side of the fire of sin had an absolutely blazing source of fire. When this flame was strong enough, Milo felt its tempering of life.

His body is undergoing a brutal purification process.

The gentle fire fueled by humanity gives Milo an inexhaustible source of vitality.

At this moment, the relationship between Milo's body and the gentle fire is the same as the relationship between the weeping ghost sealing the illusion and his self-immolating fire; the gentle fire allows life force to burst forth infinitely...

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When the flame is extremely intense.

Milo felt that his physical strength had even surpassed the peak state he had once been granted by Holy Communion.

Of course, these moments of "extreme vigor" only existed for a few moments last night.

However, his physical strength under normal conditions is far beyond what ordinary people can compare to. At least, if he were to do it all over again, Milo would definitely not have so many bones broken by the giant arrow in mid-air near the sea.

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Only then did he finally understand that the true purpose of the Gentle Fire was not simply to make Freya doze off.

(End of this chapter)