The Queen of Scrolls never admits defeat

After restocking and tidying up the shop, Moran returned to the candy coin exchange, using cooking magic to create more magical candies while sorting through Luwen's memories.

Luwen comes from a town called Kenna on the western border of the Yara Empire. He is the youngest son of the owner of the town's herbal shop.

He also has an older brother, Irving, who is eight years older than him, and the two brothers have a very good relationship.

During his baptism, Owen received the blessing of the God of Light and entered the preparatory saints class at the temple, becoming the most promising young man in Kenner.

Lu Wen was always proud of his older brother and wanted to be like him.

They were a very happy family, but after several years of study and a second blessing, Owen became a true saint.

The temple sent their family a large reward of treasure, but Owen never returned home.

The temple only said that Owen was very talented and had been noticed by the bishop, so he went to study at the cathedral where the bishop was located. He was unable to return home for the time being, but the regional temple would take good care of his family.

Everyone else envied them for having a saint valued by the bishop, and for their family's life getting better and better. Even their parents were proud of their successful eldest son. Only Lu Wen was very angry.

Because his brother had made a promise to him that after becoming a saint, he would definitely come home and show him his divine magic.

His brother had never broken a promise, so Lu Wen was deeply troubled by his brother's departure and resolved to enter the temple, become a saint, and then go to the main city to find his brother and ask him for advice.

Later, he was indeed blessed by the God of Light during baptism and entered the preparatory class of saints in the temple.

Less than a year after he joined the Saints' Class, his parents were killed by bandits while they were buying herbs, and their bodies were mutilated.

The Templar Knights wiped out the bandits, and when Lu Wen received the news, all he saw were his parents' belongings and the bandit leader's head.

He remained calm at the time, but began to suspect the temple.

The bandit leader, whom the temple accused of murdering, had actually been saved by herbs given to him by his parents. His parents would sometimes buy herbs and other stolen goods from the bandits at low prices, but few outsiders knew about this.

That bandit leader could not possibly be the murderer of his parents.

Later, while serving as a prospective saint, he investigated the truth behind his parents' deaths.

Persistence pays off. A year later, he finally learned the truth from one of the survivors of the bandits.

The people who killed his parents were from the temple. The bandits were killed by the temple and were the "murderers" who were made public.

It was only then that Lu Wen realized that the temple was not the place of light that he and his brother had longed for; the darkness behind the temple was beyond his imagination.

Later, he discovered that all the students in the saints' class who had been blessed twice and become saints had left the temple and been transferred elsewhere.

The saints in the temple were all unfamiliar faces to the locals, and they never mentioned their hometown.

Lu Wen was not a particularly brave person. After learning that there was probably a big conspiracy behind the temple, he became afraid. He dared not confront the temple directly, nor did he dare to infiltrate the temple after the second blessing. He was afraid that he would become like those saints, forgetting his homeland, forgetting his family, forgetting his hatred, and only having the temple in his heart.

So he seized the opportunity to escape into the mountains.

His idea was simple: since the temple had problems, he would go to the temple's former superiors—the angels who had been expelled from the pantheon of the God of Light—and have them overthrow the temple to avenge him. However, he overestimated his abilities.

After finally traversing the mountains and forests and arriving at the sacred mountain range, I fainted from hunger under a tree.

An hour later, the angel Miriam, who had just trained her own "fairy messenger" and was secretly controlling it to pass through the gates of heaven and travel to the mortal realm, encountered the dying Luwen.

At that time, Miril was still a little angel who had never been exposed to the power of faith and only possessed some holy light power.

Moreover, because her parents' light pulse resonance was not high, she was just a one-winged, mottled angel. Among angels of the same age, she not only faced discrimination but also had few friends.

She suffered more malice from her own kind, which caused her to lack the arrogance of other angels and to view other races as ants.

Although Lu Wen looked disheveled, his thick blond hair made Millie, whose wings had stray feathers, feel ashamed of herself. She not only saved Lu Wen but also became his friend and accompanied him to the Holy City.

Every day, Lu Wen went to the gates of heaven to pray and reveal the evil deeds of the temple to the angels, which finally made Miriam unable to resist telling him.

Only high-ranking angels have the power to leave the sacred mountains and destroy the temple.

However, only those who have come into contact with the power of faith and possess the halo of faith can advance to become high-ranking angels.

The halo of faith is formed by the emotions of angels.

Once they have the halo of faith, angels no longer see emotions, only self-interest.

The number of believers controlled by the Yara Empire's temple was no longer sufficient to warrant intervention from the high-ranking angels who could spread their faith in the Well of Heaven.

It's impossible for any angel to avenge Lu Wen.

Lu Wen felt that the possibility of becoming powerful enough to overthrow the temple was almost zero, and therefore felt extremely desperate.

Reuven was Millie's first friend, and she valued his feelings very much, so she racked her brains to come up with solutions for him.

Finally, she even took the initiative to tell him her true identity, expressing her willingness to form a bond of angelic favor with him, and to give him a portion of her angelic power through divine favor, so that he could have the same long lifespan as her and the ability to use holy light magic.

However, in that case, he would become her most devout follower, and like her, lose normal emotions, becoming completely centered around her.

Lu Wen refused. He was unwilling to risk losing his memory to receive the temple's second blessing in the first place, and now he was unwilling to lose his emotions and become a follower of Miriam in order to seek revenge.

He told Millie, "Without emotions, without memories, I am not the real me."

Millie never felt there was anything wrong with using emotions to forge the Ring of Faith and absorbing the power of faith to strengthen herself. She even once hoped that if she could become a high-ranking angel quickly and be free of emotions, she would not be saddened by the ridicule of others.

But Lu Wen's words also prompted her to reflect.

If she becomes a high-ranking angel and loses her emotions, will she still be herself? Can she still be friends with Lu Wen as she is now?
It wasn't until she witnessed a low-ranking angel couple who had a close relationship break up after becoming high-ranking angels due to a lack of resonance in their light pulses, and each find other angels to reproduce with, that she realized how truly important emotions are. (End of Chapter)