When Zero came to the sky garden outside the auditorium, he had already become a well-known young upstart in Asgard. On the highly anticipated rostrum, Ling, Feng, and Su were awarded the title of Holy Spirit at the same time. In the military rank system of the Hall of Valor, the Holy Spirit is an upper-middle class, equivalent to a lieutenant in the Dark Council.
Although the three of them were honored as holy spirits at the same time, only Zero received much attention. In addition to Zero's own record, it was also inseparable from his strength. Even though Feng and Su had passed the battle of Jotunheim, their strength had already reached the critical point of the eighth level. But their genes are undergoing a series of evolutions, and only after they stabilize, will they truly transform and be promoted to high-level ability users of their respective professions.
But Zero has already completed the transformation, and the slight time difference on the evolutionary path has directly explained the pros and cons of potential. Undoubtedly, in the eyes of many people, as a high-level ability user, Zero's potential is far greater than the other two teammates. So after the ceremony, Zero found that there were more noble ladies entangled around him.
In the end, Zero used the excuse of going to the bathroom to get rid of the large group of little nobles who wanted to recruit him, and came to the hanging garden instead.
The hanging garden is much quieter than the banquet hall. A blond beauty in a costume is playing Chopin's "Serenade" for the guests in the garden. The beautiful and soft music floats smoothly from the black piano box under the smart ten fingers, and floats leisurely in every corner of this hanging garden.
The quaint lampposts are skillfully designed among the rocks behind the trees, and the lights are soft and full of ambiguity, filling the sky garden with an old-age petty bourgeois sentiment.
Fancy desks in twos and threes in the garden are interspersed among them, and each table is equipped with a gorgeous lampstand. Inside the lampshade made of lace, there are candles flickering, illuminating the faces that are full of conversation.
Zero finally found an empty table at a character leaning against the edge of the stone railing, and was able to sit down. As soon as he sat down, a waiter brought him drinks, and Zero ordered a cocktail, so he leaned on his chair and looked at Asgard under the night.
Seen from this direction, most buildings in Asgard are hidden in darkness. The Milky Way starry sky calculated by the holographic electronic board fills the city with a romantic atmosphere, while the city under the night, dotted with bustling lights, turns into another bright galaxy on the ground.
For a while, Zero stared blankly.
"It's beautiful."
A cold voice sounded from the side, and when Zero came back to his senses, he found that Valkyrie, who was wearing a silver skirt, was standing next to Zero at some point. The goddess of tonight has her long sea-blue hair pulled up high, and a fancy crown embellished with rhinestones is pinned on her smooth forehead. Apart from that, Valkyrie has no other accessories, and then again, her beauty never needs any superfluous things to embellish.
"Won't you invite me to sit down?" Valkyrie asked softly.
Zero jumped up quickly, and opened a chair for Valkyrie, before saying: "Please sit down."
Valkyrie smiled and said, "I can see that Mr. Reden has taught you a lot. He is a strict person, and my etiquette class is also taught by him himself."
Thinking of the old man's rigid face, Ling said, "I'm afraid it won't be a pleasant experience."
"That's right." Valkyrie smiled again, she smiled extra much tonight, different from her usual iceberg beauty.
A smile is like a glimpse, easy to put away. Valkyrie put away his smile, looked at the city in the distance, and said: "Before I was five years old, I lived in ruins and garbage dumps. I didn't even know who my parents were. Go to the dangerous wilderness together to find food. This kind of life is something that most people in this city will not understand. Among the refugees in the wilderness, the elderly and children do not receive special treatment. Eating the leftovers of mature men. For me, life before the age of five was hell until I met my current father."
"Book?"
Valkyrie nodded and said: "The founder of the Hall of Valor is my father Ben. He found me in a ruined supermarket, and then I came here. At that time, Asgard was not what it is now. It is only a little bigger than an ordinary settlement, but for me, this city is no different from heaven. Here I don't have to worry about whether there will be food for the next meal. All I have to do is bring my father from all over The children who came back received the training from Mr. Cario. The training was very hard, but I studied everything very hard. History, economy, military, philosophy and even art, as long as it was taught by the teacher, I tried my best to write it down .Because I know that only in this way can I get rid of that hellish fate."
Looking at the luxurious Valkyrie, it is really difficult for Zero to associate her with the wilderness.
"Fortunately, Tyr, Sol, Loki, and Bader and I all have the potential to satisfy my father. The reason why we have everything today is the fruit of my father's painstaking cultivation, and if my father is a flower Asgard is the fertile ground for our growth. My father took us into a wider world, and Asgard is the hope in our hearts. My father said that the capital of the kingdom of God like this will one day , will appear in every corner of the world." Valkyrie looked at Zero and said: "We have been fighting with this belief, in order to save more children like us from the tragic fate, we are willing to give our all !"
Zero's heart was shocked, but Valkyrie's seemingly weak body contained the light of unwavering faith. Behind her cold exterior hides a fiery heart. In front of her, those so-called aristocratic and wealthy families will gradually become filthy. This is the difference between righteousness and self-interest.
"I once heard from a friend." Zero also said at this time, Agatha's beautiful face naturally appeared in her mind: "She said that her dream is to find someone to love and guard a house , taking care of the children every day, quietly waiting for her working husband to return. But in such a world, such a dream seems so ridiculous. And it was not until she died that I realized that she was using her life to try to change the world. so... ... "
Zero clenched his fists and said: "Although it may be a bit self-defeating to say so, I want to try. Try to create a country that she wants!"
"Is this your utopia?" Valkyrie asked lightly.
"Utopia? Maybe, everyone has a dream country in their hearts." Ling smiled.
"In fact, this is very good." Valkyrie looked at the night sky and said, "We have similar dreams, let us work together to realize them!"
The goddess raised the cup of wine in her hand and said, "For the dream."
"For our utopia." Zero smiled slightly.
So the two wine glasses staggered in mid-air and collided with each other with a ding.
After drinking, Valkyrie stood up and said: "I'm leaving, your entertainment tonight should be indispensable, and there will be more in the future. But don't forget, the root of everything is power, and only power can let the world hear you. our voice."
After leaving these words, Valkyrie left with a smile. Seeing the silver figure disappearing into the distance, Ling Jing felt slightly disappointed. At this moment, a figure flickered in front of him, and an old man dressed as a housekeeper approached and said to Ling, "This must be Mr. Ling."
Zero thought about Valkyrie's words in his heart, and it seemed to be another entertainment. He thought to himself, and said: "I am, may I ask you?"
The old man smiled and said: "I am Casirio, the steward of the Black Rose family. My master would like to invite Mr. Ling to meet in private. I wonder if Mr. Ling can appreciate this face."
The Black Rose family, one of the three giants, has no reason not to give this face. Ling Xindao, stood up immediately and said: "Mr. Caxilio, please lead the way."
Cacilio said lightly: "Mr. Zero, please call me Leo, please come with me."
So under the guidance of the old butler, Zero followed him around in the hanging garden for more than half a circle. While walking, Zero thought about the intention of the Black Rose family. Presumably, even though he was promoted to Holy Spirit, his size is equivalent to that of a small nobleman, but he has the additional right to set up a private guard. With Ling's current status and status, it's fine to make friends with low-level nobles, but Ling can't see that he is worthy of being invited by the Black Rose family, one of the three wealthy families.
When passing by the Hanging Garden, Zero heard whispers coming from every corner. There are quite a few upper-middle-class nobles here who don't look down on fighters like Zero, but they recognize Caxilio who is leading the way. When Ruideen mentioned the three giants of Asgard to Zero, only the butler of the Black Rose family, Casilio, was compared by Ruideen with the current owner, Beyonce. An honor that the butler of a wealthy family does not have.
The reason why Cacilio deserves attention is that, in addition to his qualifications of serving the two generations of heads of the Black Rose family, it is also because Cacilio himself is a tenth-level ability user. However, with the power of the main god level, Cacilio is willing to be hidden under the brilliance of the house. As for the reason, outsiders can only vaguely guess that he has something to do with the first Patriarch Gafni he served.
According to legend, the relationship between the young Cacilio and the previous head of the family, Gafni, was ambiguous, but the identities of Cacilio and the head of the family were far apart. In order to obtain an identity compatible with Gafni, Cacilio was ordered to go on an expedition, trying to use military exploits to improve his status. But when he came back, Jia Fu Ni was already critically ill.
When she was in danger, Gafnet asked Cacilio to take care of her daughter, the current head of the house, Beyonce. Since then, Cacilio put down the long sword he had fought for many years, and put on the butler's dress instead, and he has been wearing it for twenty years!
It can be said that Cacilio is an important figure for the Black Rose family to deal with the other two giants. If it weren't for him, a high-ranking powerhouse, to sit in charge, the Black Rose family, which is inferior to the other two giants in terms of resources and talents, would have long been unable to escape the fate of being annexed.