The Cornflower Witch Chapter 279

The battle is over.

Sylphidya rode the Griffon back to the ground. Too many things had happened tonight, and by the time it was all over, the dawn light was slowly illuminating the horizon.

Beside her, Princess Masha looked at the finally calm land with mixed emotions, but didn’t know how to speak.

Where would she go in the future, and what would become of Regus? She could only await the arrangement of the young girl beside her.

Would she become a puppet princess, or would she leave, go to a foreign land, and live in seclusion?

Oh, she still didn’t know the other’s name. Not only had the other saved her, but she had also saved Regus. Although it was difficult to repay this kindness, she should at least remember the other’s name.

On the other side, Sylphidya was still digesting the scenes she had witnessed from the otherworldly rift.

Alien worlds, different earths, memories of past lives, and everything in this life, like scattered stars, finally connected, forming a continuous spectrum. Her once fragmented self was now slowly mending within the same framework.

A fresh joy flowed through her heart, like the exhilaration and cheers of a child playing with a new toy, seeing a new comic book, or encountering a particularly interesting game.

She blinked her eyes, and before them appeared a seven-colored picture book that only she could see. Opening it, the first page was a light gray and black-and-white illustration, with neat lines outlining divisions, depicting the scene that Sylphidya remembered most vividly from her past life.

**Page One: Dust-Sealed Past**

“This is your dust-sealed and hard-to-find past. It was a civilization stepping into industrialization and informatization. As a member of it, you profoundly experienced the many conveniences brought by technological progress. Nearly sixteen years of exam-oriented education instilled much knowledge into you, building a systematic knowledge framework for you. Perhaps it was ordinary at the time, but possessing these knowledge systems allows you to quickly adapt and understand learning in a new world. This is an invisible wealth and ability.”

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Effect: **[Modern Educational Framework]**: Allows you to understand knowledge and process information at a speed and depth far exceeding ordinary people. You can often gain inspiration and ideas beyond your era based on your past life experiences.

“In the picture, you are reading various amazing and intriguing stories and novels, with an open game console, computer, and television nearby. As a member of the information age, you were exposed to countless novel stories, born from numerous different perspectives and world-building structures, incredibly rich and strange. Those novel concepts were always refreshing.”

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Effect: **[Myriad Fantasies]**: Thanks to your long-term viewing of works with various worldviews, you can always easily grasp completely different concepts, and understand divergent or even conflicting skills and legends. This prevents your mind from easily denying certain possibilities and allows you to learn abilities from many different factions.

“From childhood, you had a keen observation ability, which made it easy for you to understand the feelings of others and empathize with them. However, this ability could also be a burden. You would unconsciously adhere to certain moral principles and only truly relax when alone.”

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Effect: **[Keen Mind]**: Good at understanding others’ feelings and empathizing with their situations, but needs solitude to restore energy.

After finishing this page, Sylphidya felt a sense of embarrassment, as if she had been seen through. Did this book directly reflect her inner thoughts? Even things that happened in her childhood were drawn in the picture book.

She quickly turned this page to the next.

On this page, a garden, pavilions, luxurious buildings, maids surrounding them, and ubiquitous light blue Cornflower were outlined with particularly gorgeous lines and colors.

**Page Two: The Princess of the Mezzerlance Family**

“In this life, you were born into the prestigious Mezzerlance family of the Sun Dynasty. As the only daughter of Shirin, the family head and ‘Purple Aster Witch,’ you possessed noble blood from birth. At the age of ten, your mother took you to the garden connecting the Celestial Court, where you received blessings from high-ranking fairies, making you ‘favored by the Cornflower.’ Since then, your name has been inscribed in the Mezzerlance family tree, giving you a very prominent right of inheritance.”

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Effect: **[Mezzerlance Family Bloodline]**: You can easily distinguish differences in timbre and variations in color, giving you an advantage in poetry and painting. This is an advantage born of bloodline; the Mezzerlance family is renowned for its poets and painters, natural masters in the field of art.

“In your childhood, you met a Dragon Princess from the Eastern Continent. She showed you the jade pendant of the emerald dragon’s afterglow. This memory still sleeps deep within you, awaiting awakening one day.”

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Effect: **[Dragon’s Pact]**: You will remember that forgotten pact.

This life’s identity has nothing to do with being ordinary, Sylphidya couldn’t help but complain. By the way, why couldn’t she recall any scenes about the Dragon Princess of the East? In the illustration on this page, only an Eastern-style blue sea dragon boat was outlined, without any specific scene depicted.

Now, let’s turn to the third page, Sylphidya continued to flip through the invisible pages of the picture book.

On this page, she was wearing a dark green dress, sitting in a courtyard rich with autumn colors. Behind her stood flourishing trees, their crowns layered with yellow and green leaves, and a dozen golden pears swayed gently in the wind. All around were dense bluish-green bushes, with small red berries intertwined. Beneath her feet was a carpet of pale yellow leaves, with occasional flowers and grasses peeking through the gaps.

The overall scene was tranquil, and her face and hair were tinted with a faint golden glow from the courtyard’s afterglow, blending harmoniously with her surroundings, exceptionally beautiful and coordinated.

**Page Three: Maiden in the Courtyard**

“The flowers, plants, and trees you have carefully tended surround you. You are their nurturer and the mistress of this courtyard.”

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Effect: **[Mistress of the Courtyard]**: You are familiar with the characteristics of many plants and have cultivated many perfectly healthy plants with condensing attributes. This achievement allows you to cultivate familiar plants without much thought, relying only on memory and instinct to keep them in optimal condition.

“The Cornflower blooming in the corner often goes unnoticed, but when it blossoms in profusion, it reveals astonishing beauty.”

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Effect: **[Cornflower’s Favor]**: You are favored by the Cornflower, intimately bound to your destiny. In all matters related to it, you become astute and proficient. It may not be the strongest or most beautiful flower, but it will be your finest adornment, concealing many secrets for you.

After viewing this page, she continued to turn to the next.

On this page, she appeared in various scenes, clad in white battle armor and riding a warhorse. These included the knight arena, where she was the focus of all eyes, the wilderness at night, and battlefields of fire through which she galloped.

In these scenes, her weapons also varied. Sometimes she wielded a knight’s longsword, other times a lance, or a battle-axe, cutting through obstacles. Her silver hair streamed from beneath her helmet, displaying the demeanor of a knight as depicted in legends.

**Page Four: The Galloping White Knight**

“Arena, battlefield, sea of fire, your figure is so striking, your heroic charge, admired and trusted by all, is that of the White Knight, representing hope and victory.”

—Effect: **[Riding the Laurel]**: When you charge alone under the gaze of thousands, you gain the blessing of the ‘castle’ attribute power. (The more people admire, respect, and love you, the stronger the blessing effect.)

This page’s ability was probably her core ability after transitioning to the ‘castle’ aspect, Sylphidya quickly finished reading it, then she continued to flip to the next page.

On the new page, Sylphidya wore a blue-lined, black ballroom gown. Behind her was a vast star sea, with many Eye Demons silently suspended in the air, gathered around her, obedient to her command. The girl’s black hair floated gently in the star sea. She rested one hand in front of her, her hand covered by a black velvet glove, her fingers slightly bent, lightly covering her face. Her exposed eyes gleamed with magnificent and intimidating flickering starlight.

**Page Five: Star Maiden**

“You are a star from an alien world, mastering various astonishing ‘alien’ secret arts and abilities. Even strange alien beings obey your command, becoming your familiars and servants.”

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Effect: **[Origin of Stars]**: You are a star; this is a more fundamental truth than any talent, and it is destined to shed all its outer layers and reveal itself to the world one day. You can wield any star-related secret art and ability, whether this ability originates from this world or another.

After reading these five pages, Sylphidya noticed that the various scattered ability cards had automatically been categorized into their respective pages. For example, abilities related to gardening were all on **[Page Three: Maiden in the Courtyard]**, while newly acquired abilities regarding the ‘alien’ path were all on **[Page Five: Star Maiden]**.

This picture book was like a library, housing all the ability cards she possessed. Among them, **[Prayer in the Lake by Merelanco]** and **[Grimoire: Hundred-Eyed Ritual]** were also placed in the back pages of the picture book, available for review at any time.

In addition, it allowed Sylphidya to switch her attribute aspect tier more easily and casually, like a carousel, effortlessly changing her attribute aspect tier and various abilities, without the painstaking sealing and swapping required in the past.

Of course, the most important ability of the picture book was not just to **[Store]** cards, but to collect ‘colors’ and record them in the painting scroll.

What are ‘colors’? In Luna’s explanation, this is almost a concept, not actual pigment. She means that when individuals uniquely change themselves, their environment, or others, ‘colors’ are produced. For example, if a singer changes the world with her voice, she must have brought her own unique color to the world.

Although she didn’t quite understand the meaning of ‘colors’, the picture book automatically collected the ‘colors’ Sylphidya possessed. Now she could see how many ‘colors’ she had.

**’Morning Dew Verdant Green’** – 37 units. This is the color condensed after Sylphidya cultivated perfect plants.

**’Noble Sacred White’** – 12 units. This is the color condensed after Sylphidya saved many towns.

**’Pure Transparent Silver’** – 5 units. This is the color condensed after Sylphidya purified water sources and the earth.

**’Blood Crimson’** – 3 units. This is the color condensed after Sylphidya killed powerful enemies in battle.

**’Alien Color’** – 10 units. This is the color condensed after Sylphidya encountered and analyzed alien entities.

Miss Luna also hid quite a few gifts within the picture book, allowing Sylphidya to redeem them with ‘colors’.

Of course, ‘colors’ had another use, which was **[Illustration]**, meaning that based on the knowledge and concepts Sylphidya learned and understood, it would automatically draw and deduce more perfect cards for her, as well as discover the potential of certain cards and awaken unknown and new powers.

For example, the original ‘Breathing Method’, in addition to Sylphidya’s current ‘Moonlight Breathing Method’, could also integrate ‘Iron Armor Protection’ to transform into ‘Steel Body’. The ‘Golden Vapor’ path could integrate ‘Heat Absorption Breath’ to transform into ‘Iron Lung Breath’. The ‘Mist Shadow’ path could integrate ‘Sound Lowering Method’ to transform into ‘Silent Body’, and so on. These were all secret arts of ability card transformation developed, experimented with, and improved by generations of geniuses. She could also use the power of the picture book to derive more excellent and perfect cards.

Just like a growing tree, it showed this girl different branching directions, painting a more beautiful and stunning future possibility.

This picture book is truly special and practical, no wonder the girl with the umbrella under the moon specifically instructed her to make good use of it.

Sylphidya let out a breath, shaking her head, which was a little dizzy from absorbing too much information. This slightly adorable appearance made Princess Masha suddenly realize that the girl in front of her might be even younger than herself.

She had previously thought that this girl must be a hidden powerful figure, and as for outward appearance, high-tier transcendents had many ways to maintain youth. But now she felt she might have been wrong; perhaps the other person really was that kind of genius, achieving astonishing accomplishments at a very young age.

The Griffon swooped down from the distant firmament, its body more majestic than mountains. Although this was not the Griffon’s true body but a body condensed from starlight, it was still exceptionally powerful, capable of shaking the entire Regus region.

**[Azure Griffon]** (Tier 6 – Alien – Firmament): The true projection of the Leo Palace, lasting for three days. Its power is enough to tear the firmament and shatter the earth, a special projected life.

As it approached the ground, the Griffon leveled its dive, then spread its wings, and a turbulent airflow swept the earth. Its speed quickly decreased until it stopped before the ruins of the mountain valley.

Sylphidya, holding Princess Masha’s hand, slid down from the Griffon’s back, taking a long moment to land on the ground.

Looking up, the two people standing before the Griffon were probably not even the size of its fingernail. It looked like a mountain, even larger than the camel that had taken Sylphidya to the forest in her memory.

The two walked out slowly, and nearby, the sound of horse hooves rapidly approached. When they finally saw the two, those figures couldn’t help but cheer.

They excitedly approached the young girl, some shouting with joy, others constantly praising Sylphidya’s beauty and heroic demeanor, and still others wanted to pledge their allegiance to this peerless young girl immediately.

Under the fervent gaze of the crowd, Sylphidya felt a little shy, slightly averted her gaze, and gently stroked her hair. After everything was over, she lost the decisive, ruthless state she had been in earlier, revealing her original somewhat shy personality.

However, she couldn’t rest yet; she had to see things through to the end.

Sylphidya thought this, and her previously shy mood slowly calmed down. Right now, she stood at the foot of the lion, exceptionally small, but her gentle brows and figure brought peace to many.

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