Chapter 7: Cheek Marks & Becoming a Divine Princess
The golden-haired loli sat in front of a small tree by the stream, her face filled with worries and thoughts that didn’t belong to someone of her age.
Dillin, with a frowning face, propped her chin on one hand and looked at her reflection in the lake, endlessly lamenting.
She poked at the sword-shaped, black-and-white “birthmark” on her cheek. It had no particular sensation, feeling just like the rest of her skin.
Still, a cute child’s face marred by a scar-like birthmark was quite unsightly, significantly impacting the elven girl’s beauty.
It would’ve been a knockout without this birthmark.
Despite having no attachment to this body, even Dillin felt it was a pity. She wondered if this birthmark could be removed…
The golden patterns on the back of her hand glowed. This mark was like an invisible tattoo, only noticeable when it lit up.
Dillin looked at the pattern on her hand made of golden suns and harps, unsure what the heck it was.
After organizing the jumbled thoughts in her head, she laid out the timeline and logical relationships of the events.
That night, after receiving a strange flyer, she went to Coleman Forest, accidentally entered the Ancient Tree Shrine, and then accepted the soul sacrifice of the Elf Empress Bilodis.
Dillin was sure that this birthmark had something to do with Bilodis’ soul sacrifice.
Bilodis insisted that Dillin was her sister, but if the soul sacrifice had failed, Dillin would’ve disappeared forever.
Since her soul still existed, Dillin guessed that Bilodis’ close relative most likely hadn’t been resurrected successfully. She, herself who was still whole, indicated that the soul sacrifice had most likely failed.
As for the possibility of success, Dillin hadn’t even considered it.
She was a blue star person in her previous life — not some “sister.” Souls that weren’t compatible couldn’t achieve success, could they?
So, where was she now? Dillin looked up at the infinite sky, confused.
Most likely, she was still stuck in this wretched alternate world.
She hadn’t been able to escape; this world was like a cage, trapping her in it.
“I wonder if that pointy-eared creature will keep its promise,” Dillin stood up, looking at her reflection in the lake water and noticed something familiar.
A golden-rimmed blue butterfly hairpin on her side.
This hairpin, wasn’t it?
“Take good care of this.”
It seemed like Bilodis had said something like that before Dillin lost consciousness, then pushed something into her hand, which was likely this thing.
Dillin reached out for the butterfly hairpin and tried to take it off, but as soon as her hand touched the golden-blue hairpin, the scene changed suddenly.
Everything in her field of vision was outlined with borders and contours of different colors. When she focused on an object, several lines extended from it, accompanied by detailed textual explanations in Elven language.
“What??” Dillin blinked.
Wasn’t this the divine technique of a Divine Child, the “Divine Analysis Technique”?
Dillin, as a Divine Child, knew the basic knowledge of the Divine Analysis Technique. The Divine Analysis Technique was a special ability granted by the Original God. When activated, it could connect the one who uses it to the Sea of Sages, analyzing the name and purpose of objects.
The creator of the Sea of Sages was untraceable, but most scholars believed it was one of the Seven Saints, the Scholar of Inquiry and Knowledge — Etoride, the protector of the Divine Child. Through the continuous improvement of previous sages over many generations, this vast database now contained knowledge about almost all species and items on the Caleburn continent. As long as the Divine Analysis Technique was released, one could connect to the Sea of Sages, and if there were related records in the Sea of Sages, they could be analyzed.
However, there were always better and worse students in any profession, and the Sea of Sages had different permission levels. The higher the permission level, the more items could be analyzed at once, and the more detailed the analysis text would be. The permission levels were directly linked to the talent of the Divine Child.
There was once a highly talented Divine Child who had meticulously analyzed the maker and crafting process of an ancient holy relic without skipping a single step, representing the highest level.
As for Dillin, she was probably the bottom of the barrel among Divine Children.
Her talent was so bad that she could barely use the Divine Analysis Technique, the most basic skill for Divine Children. She could only analyze flowers and plants.
But who needs you to analyze flowers and plants that are already obvious?
A completely blank piece of paper; do you need a magnifying glass to check that there’s nothing written on it?
The Divine Analysis Technique at this level wasn’t only useless; it was painfully useless.
Those with insufficient talent like Dillin were common in the Divine Children world, often joked by the industry as “Blind Divine Children.”
This was also one of the reasons why Dillin’s teammates had left. Divine Children were usually the leaders and commanders of a team, and how could a Divine Princess blindly hand over her life to a Blind Divine Child?
Given a better option, who wouldn’t leave? So, the disappearance of the two Divine Princesses was understandable to Dillin.
Even though she was sure this was indeed the Divine Analysis Technique, she couldn’t help doubting herself. The detailed and accurate information presented before her eyes was completely different from her previous experiences. For example, the descriptions expanding from a common roadside grass would have about five to six lines of text. This was a world away from her previous useless Divine Analysis Technique.
Was this what a high-class Divine Child saw? It was truly a transparent world.
Dillin let go of the hairpin, and all annotations and line contours disappeared from her vision.
Could this be an ability built into the hairpin?
Dillin walked to the lake, holding the hairpin, and activated the Divine Analysis Technique in front of her reflection in the lake.
Name: Tylisagala Nolin
Race: Fairy
Race Branch: Gold Elf
Strength: D (pre-devine princess transformation)
Speed: D (pre-devine princess transformation)
Combat Durability: C (pre-devine princess transformation)
Impact Resistance: D (pre-devine princess transformation)
Divine Resistance: C (pre-devine princess transformation)
Divine Authority: (pre-devine princess transformation, no divine authority)
Wow, you’re a CD Warrior, aren’t you?
Below there was another row named Status.
Status: Juvenile (pre-divine princess transformation), [“Sword of Oblivion for Destruction and Creation”] digestion in progress (estimated digestion time: 29 days, 4 hours)
Note: When the [“Sword of Oblivion for Destruction and Creation”] completes its absorption and digestion, the divine princess transformation will occur, and the cheek marks will disappear completely.
