Chapter 787: Two Pairs of Sisters! The Goddess Visits

"Lady Mengying, thank you for your hospitality this time; I truly appreciate it."

On the flying ship, Empress Tina said to Mengying.

Yes, Empress Tina was preparing to return.

She had stayed in the Flame Empire for nearly a month and a half; she had learned all she needed to know.

Mengying said: "Empress Tina, no need for such formalities."

During this month and a half, Mengying had spent considerable time accompanying Empress Tina, and the two women had clearly become good friends.

The fox woman, Sister Qing Ling, also came to see them off.

After bidding farewell to Sister Qing Ling, Mengying escorted Empress Tina to the border and formally parted ways with her.

Over thirty flying ships of the Eternal Night Empire lifted into the sky and departed from the Flame Empire's border.

On the flying ship, Empress Tina watched the land receding behind her, still feeling faint shocks within her heart.

During this month and a half, Empress Tina gained much from her time in the Flame Empire.

She had seen too many things unlike anything else.

She had also witnessed a god's philosophy unlike that of any other god.

In the Flame Empire, from nobles and officials down to commoners, everyone's spirit and demeanor differed markedly from those of other nations on the Continent of Gods.

They were filled with passion and hope for life; whether commoner or noble, all worked tirelessly with their own hands to build their own homes.

They truly loved that nation.

Precisely because of this love, the people of the Flame Empire had become especially devout toward the Lord of Flame!

A quiet decision had already formed in Empress Tina's heart.

Yet whether this decision would become reality depended on whether her sister could create a miracle during her breakthrough.

Empress Tina felt her sister would most likely fail to create a miracle.

"Pity she won't listen to reason."

Empress Tina sighed lightly.

More than a day later, Empress Tina returned to the capital of the Eternal Night Empire.

Everything in the capital remained as usual.

But this was merely a surface appearance.

The Crown Princess's intuition was correct.

The Eternal Night Empire had already begun covertly preparing for war.

As a thousand-year empire, the Eternal Night Empire's accumulated resources were immense.

The state treasury held endless gold; the armories were piled high with fine weapons.

The Eternal Night Empire also had a great number of powerful cultivators.

After being secretly summoned, several high nobles returned home and were doing everything they could to arm their troops.

In comparison, grain stockpiling was not a particularly large-scale effort.

The Eternal Night Empire's granaries were already well-stocked.

This colossal power's movements, aside from the Flame Empire—which traded closely with it—had not yet been detected by any other empire.

In any empire, there are inevitably spies from other nations.

But unless the Eternal Night Empire openly launched large-scale military preparations, those spies could not deduce the truth from such minimal clues.

Those spies lacked the wisdom of the Crown Princess.

Besides, by common sense, the Eternal Night Empire could never possibly be embarking on a large-scale war.

In the northern region of the Continent of Gods, the Eternal Night Empire was a colossus, standing invincible for a thousand years—a classic thousand-year empire.

To many, the Eternal Night Empire even had the potential to become a ten-thousand-year empire.

After returning to the capital of the Eternal Night Empire, Empress Tina once again visited the palace with the magic mirror after nightfall.

"Magic Mirror, connect me to her."

Empress Tina said.

The image on the magic mirror began to twist.

Soon, the face of the Eternal Night Goddess appeared on the mirror.

Her face was indeed identical to Empress Tina's.

In contrast, Angest and the Light Queen Olivia looked completely different.

Empress Tina and the Eternal Night Goddess were standard twin sisters.

Angest and Olivia had no parents.

They were merely two beings born from the Life Tree, their life essences linked together—thus they were considered sisters.

It was normal they didn't resemble each other, since they had no blood relation.

The concept of "bloodline" didn't really apply to elves.

Because they had no father or mother, the elf population increased purely through the Life Tree's birthing.

After appearing, the Eternal Night Goddess said nothing.

These two identical sisters simply gazed at each other across the magic mirror.

"Tina, are you not going to talk me out of it this time?"

Finally, the Eternal Night Goddess spoke first.

Empress Tina said: "How long until you begin?"

"Six months," said the Eternal Night Goddess.

The Eternal Night Goddess Dao.

"Six months from now, the Sun of the Heavenly Realm will undergo its once-in-a-century eruption of radiant energy, during which vast quantities of divine matter will surge to its surface. At that time, most of the gods in the Heavenly Realm will travel to the Sun of the Heavenly Realm to collect this divine matter—this is my chance."

The Goddess of Eternal Night added further explanation.

Had the other not been her sister, she would never have explained so thoroughly.

Empress Tina's voice remained calm, revealing no emotion. She said, "Fine. Notify me when you begin."

With that, Empress Tina ended the conversation.

"Strange."

In a certain divine realm of the Heavenly Realm, the voice of the Goddess of Eternal Night echoed.

Tina's behavior today had struck her as strange.

Though she was the elder sister, the other was the younger.