novelonline Chapter 3600 Background Characters
Chapter 3600 Background Characters
Chapter 3600 Background Characters
As he spoke, Shad took the scroll that Luvia handed back to him:
"However, the things described on this scroll are probably not common. For example, the Fallen Star Beasts of Fallen Star Bay are probably among the few 'Rings of Fate' that have remained intact in our time. What I'm worried about is how many dice the Prophet's Association actually has. Although making Elder Zarathustra the chosen one isn't a bad choice, if given the chance, I would still prefer to support Stella."
“You’ve come to the right place. I’ll think about it during my journey. Rings, curves, dice, how interesting. We’ll stay in Lomari for a day. If I can find some extra special coins on the local black market, maybe I can do another divination.”
Shad kissed Luvia's forehead:
"Alright, I've finished talking, so I'll head back now. Have a pleasant trip, see you Thursday, Luvia."
As he was about to take out the glass slipper, Luvia grabbed his hand:
"Wait a minute. You came all this way to catch up with me, I can't just let you go back like this, that's not what a good girl should do."
"Is there anything else?"
The girl with purple eyes glanced out the window, then at Shad. She pursed her lips and winked at him. Shad, looking into those beautiful purple eyes, immediately understood:
"Isn't this a bad idea?"
His tone was not very firm.
"What's wrong with that? This is a train, after all. We should be brave enough to try new things."
As she spoke, Luvia reached out and pulled the curtains of the private room closed:
“I know you still have to pick up Adelina, so hurry up. There’s still time; getting home is just a matter of seconds. But don’t be too hasty, or I’ll be unhappy.”
Shad was still hesitant, but it was for her sake:
"I remember you'll be getting off the train in an hour and boarding the airship, so there won't be time to wash up."
Luvia turned her head to look at Shad, her purple eyes holding a trace of something like rain:
"That way, I can carry your warmth with me through the lonely time before boarding the airship."
As she spoke, she pressed her hands against the glass through the curtains, and Shad said nothing more. Of course, half an hour later, after returning home and greeting Mia, who seemed to be in the same position as before, he first washed up before heading to Yodl Palace.
This morning, King Larousse III delivered his "Appeal to the Nation" at the morning assembly of Parliament. The report reviewed the changing relationship between the North and South over the centuries, recent trade frictions, and some old grievances. Although the report did not explicitly state that war was to be waged, Larousse III was already making an appeal—
"Join hands, people. Difficult times are coming, but this is also a time to fight for honor for us and our descendants."
The Morning Post didn't have time to print this big news, but the extra edition was already being sold by newsboys on the streets as Shadcat was preparing to storm the Jodl Palace. The public generally believed that this was the prelude to the general mobilization of the war.
Although the servants at Yodl Palace dared not discuss politics openly, it was clear that they were also worried about His Majesty's speech and the series of policy changes to come.
In contrast, Adelina, who happens to be celebrating her birthday today, hasn't received as much attention as she did last year. From today onwards, the seventeen-year-old princess officially becomes eighteen.
Adelina, unaware that this had fundamentally changed her image in Shad's eyes, wasn't particularly bothered by being "neglected." After all, she was no longer an ordinary person; she had a more interesting life and goals.
When Lacey opened her bedroom window to let Shad and the cold wind in, she found Lacey in the room as well. The two sisters had just been discussing the guest list for tonight's birthday party, and from the list, it seemed Adelina was still considered a favored princess.
"Why did you take a shower before coming?"
Lacey smiled and asked Shad, but thankfully it was just a greeting, and she didn't demand an answer from him.
“Then let Adelina go with you to Fatumunst Island. It’s ten o’clock now. At eleven-thirty, you need to have her at your house. Your aunt’s carriage will bring her back. Then at one o’clock in the afternoon, you come to pick her up again and return before four o’clock.”
Although it was troublesome to do, it was Adelina's birthday after all, so everyone was happy to cooperate.
So Shad played the [Butterfly Summoning Flute] and summoned Grace and Helen. The two sisters merged with Lacey and opened a portal. This long-distance teleportation ability, spanning half of the Old World, was something they only fully mastered after the year-end festival. Sylvia had no way to teleport such a long distance except by using the tower's access privileges.
“Snow mountain!”
The portal landed on a desolate beach west of Kyle Todd. After delivering the two girls, the girls left. Adelina waved goodbye politely, then turned her back to the sea, smiling as she gazed at the shimmering Fatumunst snow-capped mountains in the sunlight, and sighed:
"Sister Mona is right, the snow-capped mountains are truly beautiful."
The young princess opened her arms wide, feeling the sunshine on the beach and the wind at the foot of the snow-capped mountain. Before this, she had never seen a real snow-capped mountain.
As Shad led Adelina by the hand into town, he felt that if Adelina weren't so concerned about saving face, she would probably be jumping for joy. She was interested in everything there; according to Adelina:
"Aside from a few older brothers and sisters who could be sent abroad by our father, I'm probably the one who's traveled the most among my siblings. Hey, Xia De, look, that's a crab. Don't crabs hibernate in winter?"
Although Adelina had visited Moon Bay with the group last year, the beach there was so expensive that there wasn't a place for her to freely show up and play. Fatumunst Island, on the other hand, was a remote island; apart from the City of Time and the town's pier, most of the beaches were in a relatively undeveloped state, and Adelina had never seen such a sea before.
As for crabs, the nobles of De la Rion mainly ate high-end seafood such as lobster, oysters, and salmon, and rarely ate crabs.
So Shad suggested that a crab dish be prepared for her at noon, a privilege reserved for princesses celebrating their eighteenth birthday.
"How about crab cups? Mix crab meat with vinaigrette and sour cream, then add chopped celery, bell peppers, and onions for crunch, and finally serve in small porcelain cups, garnished with herbs and shrimp. The maids at Sevi make this dish very well, and of course, the local Fatu people have their own way of cooking crab."
Adelina nodded quickly:
"Yeah."
Xia De then smiled and reminded him:
"You need to save room for lunch; you can eat it when you get back."
Emilia had already arrived in town ahead of time. When Shad and Agelina crossed the town from the docks to the Snow Mountain Hall on Monday, the pointy-eared elf girl was checking on the physical changes of Ellie and little Leona, who hadn't been there for a week. She had only had time to say hello when she delivered the letter yesterday.
Upon seeing the red-haired princess arrive, Emilia greeted her with delight, and then introduced Allie to Adelina. They hadn't seen each other for a whole month since the New Year's Eve celebrations, and they had a lot to talk about.
"Is this Jialina's other grandniece?"
Claire, who arrived a little later, stood at the entrance of the unicorn's den, observing Adelina, but without interrupting the little princess's reunion with the elf, she said to Shad:
"The Cavendish royal family's red hair inheritance is truly legendary; this way, the royal family will never have to worry about an illegitimate heir."
"Illegal" is a euphemism.
Shad was there watching Adelina and Emilia chat excitedly. Little Leanna knew Adelina, but it was Ellie's first time meeting the little princess, though Ellie didn't seem to mind her.
Shad and Claire chatted casually for a few more minutes, then he called Adelina over and introduced Claire to her. The little princess also greeted the Great Witch very respectfully.
Shad then took out a blank snake skin. Agelina had already heard from Lacey that she still had a mission, so she bit her fingertip and smeared her blood on it.
As Shad explained to Claire that this was Luvia's idea, large amounts of writing had already appeared on Adelina's sloughed snake.
Name: Adelina Cavendish
[Rank: Ring Warlock (Third Ring)]
[Fortune: Up]
[Story Characters: Background Characters]
[Personal Storyline: On your eighteenth birthday, you accepted an invitation to visit the foot of a snow-capped mountain. Your footprints briefly remained on the island, but were quickly submerged by the sea. Because this was not your story.]
"A background character?"
Aside from Shad's special status as an "audience member," the characters in *Snake Shedding* are categorized into background characters, minor supporting characters, major supporting characters, protagonist candidates, and protagonists. Background characters have a very low connection to the story's fate; in a real drama, these characters would mostly have no lines and simply be background figures.
This was also the first time Shad had met someone who was a "background character," and in Claire's view, this was the first person she had encountered whose initial character identity was less important than her own.
Her status as a "minor character" made her somewhat angry every time she saw other people's snake molts, so she immediately found a sense of kinship with Adelina.
"Since Adelina's role is so unimportant, it at least indicates that she's on vacation on the island today and is unlikely to encounter any trouble. Trouble doesn't actively seek out background characters."
Shad said this, and guessed that Luvia had guessed that Adelina was not very relevant to the story on the island, and that she just wanted to see how the [background character] Ring Sorcerer would behave.
Adelina herself didn't care about her identity or background, since what was happening here didn't involve her. If everything went smoothly today, it would be a good thing for her.