Chapter 442 - The Vast World
The mythical alchemy ship was named as the Goddess of Joy and was built like a huge moon. On top of the dark hull was painted with golden stars, the ship was divided into several layers, each layer was divided into different facilities; after all, it was a mythical alchemy ship, it looked like a large city, but it was more like a large cartoon maze.
When it floated above the clouds of the night, it was akin to a fairy-tale dream-like moon which was appearing in the sky.
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The ship was lit with star-like alchemy gas lamps and they were radiating colorful brilliance. At the corners of the building, there were pieces of wind chimes hung up. When the night wind was blowing, pleasant and sweet sound would be heard which also signaled for the others to hit the sack.
The ship was packed with children of the Arcane Kingdom, young elves who were fooling around in pajamas, trolls dressed as vicious monsters, little goblins that were dressed like mechanical geeks, and little fairies in floral skirts that were flying and dancing around. They were all holding onto a ticket printed with a funny looking wind raven with its tongue out.
There were various troupes on board and one show after another were waiting for them, and the children from Arcane Kingdom were seeing such a grand show for the first time.
The naughty kids and the mischievous children were getting even crazier there, and everything there was like their imaginary dream garden.
After all, that was a happy world created at mythical level.
“Goddess of Joy? Is there such a goddess? A side-god from Maria’s World?” Wendy wore a simple and short black robe; it was similar to the apprentice robe they wore when they were in the tower.
The simple robe was worn, but it still couldn’t cover up her god-like and queen-like aura.
She asked Black Jack about the origin of the name of the mythical alchemy ship. There was certainly no Goddess of Joy among the 17 True Gods, and the rest would be some insignificant side-gods.
And Black Jack stood on Wendy’s shoulder, and there had never been anyone who dared to be so bold, let alone an exotic wind raven.
It spread its wings and chattered, “Heh! There’s no such thing, if there’s a God of Joy, it can only be me!”
Wendy looked at it, her gaze was as deep as the sea, “Why don’t you become the God of Joy?”
Black Jack jumped up, “Heh-heh, that’s not good, it’s not fun to be a God!”
Wendy followed Black Jack; they passed by groups and groups of children, the children were screaming and laughing, it was as if the entire ship, Goddess of Joy, had truly turned into a divine kingdom of Goddess of Joy. Black Jack led them to experience his carefully designed dreamland together.
But the scene there was a repeat of a day nearly a million years ago, that day was supposed to be an ordinary day of the dreamland, but because of the arrival of someone, it had turned into a special and extraordinary day.
The mythical alchemy ship transformed and revolutionized, the original three-story huge dreamland was folded like a paper and into a large horror castle.
The children screamed and swarmed together, and then broke through the skull’s door and entered it.
“You haven’t said why you named it the Goddess of Joy!”
Black Jack didn’t reply, but he spread out his hands, with his broken voice, he sang, “Goddess of Joy! Holy~ Beautiful~ Brilliant light shines on the earth~”
His voice even cracked, the singing was horrible, but Black Jack was immersed in his song, and Wendy’s expression softened a little, as if she had recalled something.
It was a night, during the banquet at the castle of the tower, and the master of the tower, Anthony, played the piano placed at the side of the lobby, a song that no one had ever heard, even if Wendy was born into a musical family, and his father was a court musician, she hadn’t heard of it too.
At that time, they were like those children, the tower was their dream land, and the master of the tower, Anthony, was their dream weaver.
Wendy couldn’t help but sang along, “Goddess of Joy! Holy~ Beautiful~ Brilliant light shines on the earth~ Our hearts come to your temple with enthusiasm!”
“So it was...”
“Originated from here!”
Wendy had a smile and her gaze was softened; it was a rare sight.
“Teacher! Who is Goddess of Joy? And aren’t our wizards non-believers of gods? Why sing a song that praise gods?” Henry stood up.
“This is the god that belongs to another world! Moreover, there’s no boundary between civilization and art!”
“Teacher Anthony, how big is it outside the world?” Bohr raised his hand and asked.
“How vast is your imagination! How boundless the world would be!”
Just then, the mythical alchemy ship was flipped like a page on the book, it transformed again; the previous horror castle vanished and a grand theatre appeared.
With the appearance of lights, music, and projection, actors began to appear.
It was an old stage play that few people watched now; it was called the Song of the Wizard Tower! It told the story of the legendary Wizard Tower, but in Maria’s World, most of the wizards didn’t even know what it was, let alone the tower of the past.
The old stage play was playing again at that moment.
The wizards in the story were evil, the tower was the world’s most terrible place, the scene was a shady and terrible black spire, the wizards of the towers were wearing sharp hats, and they hid their bodies in the dark; it was a story about the human and evil wizards in a battle.
With the biggest ugly villain Anthony appearing, the children on stage cheered for Saintess Kelly who was wearing the Mask of Faross, and yelled at her to get rid of the skunk wizard.
Wendy was dismayed, “He was looking at this?”
Black Jack and Wendy sat behind the children, “Yeah! Anthony was sitting, uh! In your position.”
“He said he wasn’t happy, but he was smiling.”
“He was joyous!”
Wendy couldn’t contain her laughter; she covered her mouth and laughed continuously. She watched the old man who played Anthony on stage; it was an exaggerated performance. He uttered evil slurs, and finally being beaten by the human girl who played the Saintess.
Everything was full of joy, the children under the stage were cheering, Wendy was laughing, but Wendy ended up tearing during her laugh.
“Where did you go?”
“I said! One day I’ll show you a world created by me!”
“But you disappeared!”
She held her face, her long silver hair drooped down, and her hands completely covered her face and eyes, and even Black Jack on the side quietly walked away.
The final stage play was over, the lights went out, the show had ended, and the children were send home by several giant wind raven monsters. They rode on the wind, accompanied by starlight and unfinished dreams.
The sky slightly brightened up, the figure of the sun gradually appeared at the end of the sky, and it was the time for moon and dream to retreat.
“How big is the world?”
“Then let’s take a look! How big is the world!”
Wendy stood on the mythical ship akin to a crescent, the wind chimes were resonating, and she transformed into brilliant starlight and dissipated on top of the ship.