The eternal lightning of Lani City has never changed. Whenever travelers set foot on this thunderstorm island, they will be attracted by the purple figure on the top of the castle tower. General Barzab, the god of thunder among the seven heavenly kings, symbolizes eternal ideals. Her scimitar cuts through the sky, as if hearing the echo of thousands of thunders deep in the clouds.
Her deep indigo eyes contain five hundred years of loneliness. It is said that this general is majestic, but few people have seen her lonely figure under the cherry tree. The petals fall, touch her scimitar, and turn into points of light, like those old friends who have disappeared with the passage of time. The Eight Heavenly Kings once said that the shadow forged the sharpest blade, but forgot the temperature of the scabbard. When the traveler breaks free from the blockade of the thunderstorm and sees the “single-minded” shadow, he understands that the drizzle behind the thunder contains the mercy of the gods.
The eyes of the thousand hands and hundreds of eyes flash with a faint light, witnessing the contest between the guardian and the executioner. The people of Rani still prayed devoutly under the confinement order, but they didn’t know that the Thunder God had already turned their bodies into puppets. In the duel with the traveler, every arc of the sickle light of the Kusabi knife carried the confusion of the gods-what is eternity? Is it to solidify time, or to find the essence of eternity in change?
The legend of the Thunder God’s scimitar sealed the mighty martial arts “No Thought Slash” that killed the demon god Orobas. But when she used this technique to protect her people, the blade not only carried the power of thunder and lightning, but also carried the memory of dancing with her sister Zhen in the courtyard. In the sacred red flower ceremony, the traveler touched the softest wound of eternity-the eternal guardian is actually most afraid of losing mortals.
In Rani, there are two versions of the legend of the Thunder God. The street storyteller tells about the god of war who killed the giant snake, while the light novel of Yakado depicts a puppet general who loves desserts. When the traveler entered the Sky Castle with a tricolor puff in his mouth and saw her wiping the corners of her mouth with bean paste awkwardly, they realized that eternity was not a cold concept, but a sincere desire left for the cherished things.
The thunderstorm will eventually subside. After the confinement order was lifted, the Thunder God still sat high in the Sky Castle, but the light in her eyes was no longer sharp. A careful priestess occasionally found that there were two more cups of tea on the stone table under the cherry tree. The breeze blew, and the fragrance of tea and falling cherry blossoms danced in the air. This may be the answer Shadow found: in the fleeting beauty, there is an eternity worth guarding for a thousand years.
The forge in Lani City echoed with the sound of hammering all night, and the knife makers said that this was the general who reshaped her dream. When the traveler strolled in the town and listened to the children singing the new song “Purple Thunder Rings for Nine Days, the True Meaning Will Appear”, they knew that the lonely god finally found his home in the fireworks of the world.