Chapter 304: Chapter 304: The Spirit of Tulips

Spirit of Tulips?

Strongest divine artifact?

Could be viewed as a subordinate deity?

If so, then the God of War possessing part of Lady Dream’s authority was understandable.

So was that so-called Spirit of Tulips who issued the reward back then?

Based on existing information, they could roughly piece together a timeline.

First, the stargazers at the Eternal Night Dome discovered a signal from an alien planet. The news quickly reached Lady Dream. Lady Dream immediately went to the Eternal Night Dome, obtained relevant information, and began trying to decipher it.

After successfully deciphering it, Lady Dream obtained coordinates and could travel to another planet through the gap between reality and illusion... Of course, it was also possible that during the signal deciphering process, Lady Dream was targeted by the other side, who found this place through Lady Dream’s coordinates.

In any case, because of urgency about this signal, both sides achieved some level of communication. Finally, they opened that door—the current crack in the sky. Lady Dream entered.

A few days later, the source energy cultivation method appeared in the Tulip Kingdom. The Tulip Kingdom’s people began cultivating the other world’s power system. The two systems ran parallel, solving visitors from another realm—those monsters called Nightmares.

In the blink of an eye, around two thousand years passed. The God of Wine wanted to host a banquet, went to the Tulip Kingdom seeking Lady Dream. No results. Stole Lady Dream’s divine artifact, the vanity mirror.

The Spirit of Tulips issued a reward under Lady Dream’s identity. Actually, he knew the vanity mirror was stolen by the God of Wine, but he wasn’t a true god. Facing one of the top gods like the God of Wine, he had to make some concessions.

For unknown reasons, the God of Wine disappeared. The God of War arrived at the God of Wine’s divine realm. The Fallen Ones successfully stole the God of Wine’s legacy—Lady Dream’s vanity mirror—opening a wrong path in the mortal realm... Meanwhile, the God of War, due to some clues in the God of Wine’s divine realm, sent an avatar to the Tulip Kingdom.

The process was unknown. The result was the God of War took the Spirit of Tulips and shortly after, launched his crazy plan—devouring all gods to become omnipotent himself, the world’s only true god.

Finally, recently, the God of War was killed by him.

Much unclear information became crystal clear in this moment. The main structure was found. What came next was just using various information to flesh out the entire framework.

"The God of War never came a second time all these years?"

Ren quickly found the key point.

"No. His promise was like it never existed. If I didn’t know the Church of the God of War had been expanding, I might’ve suspected many years ago that he simply didn’t want to solve this problem."

Little Finger’s words were extremely certain. "Actually, I know those people from the Church of the God of War couldn’t possibly solve this problem. But at least he was the most hopeful one."

"Too bad he died."

The God of War himself was already very powerful, plus being a god born from war. His battle clerics were the world’s most powerful collective fighting force.

If they could use the God of War’s resources as a blueprint, massively dispatch war clerics and ordinary soldiers, supernatural legions, and trigger planetary war, the God of War would inevitably receive unprecedented strengthening.

You could say this was the method most likely to achieve their goal after these old-timers discussed it.

After all, their own goddess fell in there.

But recent events were really unsatisfactory.

"Before Lady Dream disappeared, did she leave you any information?" After digesting the previous news, Ren asked again.

"Before answering this question, may I ask you two what gods you are, and how your strength ranks among gods? I’m not doubting you two, just wanting to judge the risk situation, see if we need to supplement anything, or..."

Little Finger paused before continuing. "Or you two could invite more gods over. Of course, we definitely won’t lack payment. Whatever you want, as long as we have it here, we can give it to you, including some divine artifacts."

Saying this, he couldn’t help focusing his gaze on the position where the Spirit of Tulips should have been.

Actually, they knew that even the most ordinary, weakest god, as long as they became a god and still had faith, wasn’t someone they could provoke.

"I am Technology. She is Magic."

Ren said flatly. "Since you understand outside information so well, you should know our status. Now, can you answer my question?"

God of Technology?!

Goddess of Magic?!

Little Finger paused, eyes looking at the two before him with some shock, trying hard to match them with some information in his memory.

But it seemed they didn’t match up, like a short circuit.

The current silence was deafening.

Little Finger finally recalled his original faith. "Goddess, I never thought of betraying magic. I practice magic well every day. I just, I just..."

Little Finger’s sudden change didn’t really exceed Ren’s expectations. However, it did make the Goddess of Magic pause, though she showed no obvious reaction.

"Now you can answer whether Lady Dream left any clues, right?"

The Goddess of Magic didn’t think about what this guy wanted to say, just calmly looked at him.

"Goddess... When Lady Dream left, she only left one sentence: as long as people still dream, she’ll exist forever. No need to worry."

Little Finger ultimately spoke this sentence that had circled in his mind for who knows how long.

But obviously, this wasn’t the answer Ren wanted.

"I mean, about that world on the other side."

"No, she didn’t say." Little Finger shook his head slightly. "But she once mentioned that if she didn’t return within a year, go notify other gods to come to this place..."

"No need to continue. I already know this."

"But you definitely don’t know—actually, this Tulip Kingdom can be inherited. The goddess can’t use divine power in the other world, so she’s already fused all her authority into the Tulip Kingdom."

Saying this, Little Finger sighed. "Unfortunately, the Spirit of Tulips has already disappeared. Otherwise, you could completely use the Spirit of Tulips as a medium to control the entire Tulip Kingdom... Of course, as the price, you’d need to take on the responsibility of resisting this crack."

The Spirit of Tulips—if nothing unexpected, this thing already disappeared a thousand years ago. But his authority was still on him. He could try.

But did he need to control such a... precarious, seemingly unstable Tulip Kingdom?

Also, he didn’t understand enough about the world beyond this crack.

This didn’t seem like a decision he could make right now.