CHAPTER 498: CHAPTER 238: WATCHING THE GRANDEST METEOR SHOWER OF ALL TIME WITH YOU (8K)

He slightly raised his head, looking towards the sky above the Garden of Eden, at the bright yet illusory starscape.

"Ennie, if I remember correctly, today should be your birthday, right?"

"According to the time we have experienced and felt, that’s indeed the case."

"It’s just that we are now in the First Era, and according to the timeline, I wasn’t even born yet, so naturally, there’s no mention of a birthday. Shiayar, why did you suddenly bring this up?"

The blonde girl tilted her head slightly, a strand of pale golden hair falling from her fair forehead.

"It’s nothing, I just suddenly remembered our promise back in Ceylon."

Shiayar closed his eyes.

"On that snowy night in Ceylon, you entrusted everything to me, and I promised you, to take you to witness many beautiful things that you had never seen before..."

"But in the days that followed, I kept taking you from place to place, and although it couldn’t be called destitute, it definitely wasn’t prosperous either, far different from your status as the young lady of the Winter Flower Family."

"As for the balls and opera performances that young noble ladies should have attended, I never took you to experience even once."

"Even on days like birthdays, I could only buy a piece of birthday cake in a rented apartment, light the candles and sing a birthday song to you in a hasty manner."

"Later, once we settled down in the Empire Capital, completed revenge against the Borgia family, and lived a stable life where we could save money to do the things we love, it came with our promotion to Legendary status, and our perception of the concept of time also changed from before, with decades and centuries passing by fleetingly... The original meaning of birthdays also faded at that point."

Enola blinked her sky-blue eyes: "Actually, I feel that such birthdays were already satisfying enough."

As the last remnant of Ceylon, walking out from the Northern Territory with Shiayar, those days of wandering life, though arduous, are Enola’s most cherished memories, etched firmly in her heart.

Even as time passes, those memories have never faded.

Therefore, she clearly remembers how, in those times, Shiayar’s situation was tight, where he had to split a single silver coin in half to spend, and how difficult it was to buy her a piece of birthday cake, which was not yet widely available, requiring a purchase from the Upper City District and considered a luxury even by the nobles.

At the time, Enola hadn’t yet contracted the Sacred Spear to become a Beastmaster of the Combat Series, and her appetite wasn’t big, so to save money, Shiayar’s breakfast for weeks after Enola’s birthday was leftover cake.

Perhaps due to the cake being left too long and becoming spoiled, Shiayar got a stomachache from eating the leftover cake and had a fever for two days before recovering... Since then, Enola never allowed Shiayar to buy her birthday cake again, and she became hostile towards desserts in general.

"Ennie, you might not remember... but when you were younger, you weren’t as virtuous and frugal as you are now."

Shiayar chuckled: "I remember clearly, once on your birthday, after you blew out the candles, you closed your eyes and made a wish."

"I asked you what wish you made, and you said you wanted to see a meteor shower as your birthday gift."

"Honestly, I was a bit disoriented back then, because if you had wanted a doll or a cat, I could still save and skimp on food for the next few days to come by the money, and hang your birthday gift on your doorknob the next day, telling you that the deity from Ancient Greece in charge of birthdays heard your wish and manifested."

"But a meteor shower, for the just newly promoted First Circle Beastmaster I was back then, was a bit out of reach."

"But, now it’s different."

"After all, in this world... every star in the Astral Realm represents a deity who has ascended the Divine Ascension Steps."

"And the birth of every shooting star represents the fall of one deity."

Shiayar gently patted the golden-haired girl’s smooth long hair in front of him.

In the next moment, along that faint link coming from the Astral Realm.

In Shiayar’s eyes.

A small rune gently rotated.

This was the alchemical rune controlled by Shiayar, named "Fantasy Collapse" spell.

At this moment, with Jayee as an artificial intelligence providing auxiliary computational power, the alchemical rune silently activated.

Crossing several planes of distant distances, the "Fantasy Collapse" spell began its alchemy on the opposite end of the distant Astral Realm.

"So, Ennie."

"Tonight, let’s watch together."

"The grandest meteor shower that ever occurred in the Western Continent, from ancient times to now."