novelWyba Museum
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Wyba had heard about Tofesh far before ascending, but she didn't expect to meet him after ascension since Yale never clarified if Tofesh was alive or where he was.
Tofesh had been observing Yale before descending to impart knowledge to him, so he knew about Wyba and the name Yale used after reincarnation.
Thus, the name Wyba put to the country, Yale's Kingdom, made everything evident to Tofesh, who managed to reach ninth level immortal not too long before Wyba announced her new country.
Tofesh knew that the country Wyba announced would provoke that others attacked, so he teleported there with his recently acquired Minor Space Divinity.
Despite having just advanced, he was already one of the top experts of the universe since he attained several Minor Divinities, which put the position of his country even more important than before.
All countries over a million years old were under a non-aggression treaty that prevented that they attacked each other unless one party was the first to provoke the other.
That was made far in the past to ensure that their countries would be protected if the most powerful expert of each country needed to leave, and since all the countries had the same fear, everyone respected the treaty, but it only applied for countries that existed for over a million of years.
Yale's Kingdom was recently founded, so Tofesh knew that it would be targeted if he didn't interfere.
That area wasn't like the areas Yale first visited when he ascended that weren't important to powerful beings. The country that was there had decayed over the years, but they were once one of the most powerful countries, so the terrain was very valuable.
Without any external protection, there was no way a mere seventh level immortal could create a country there.
"So, you are my big brother's friend. You can call me Wyba directly. I accept the alliance, but no need of telling me the details. My big brother trusts you a lot, so I will also trust you."
From the start, Wyba didn't like politics at all, and if Tofesh had ill intentions, it wasn't like if she could stop him, so she chose the fast way and trusted him.
Of course, Tofesh had a fair alliance in mind, so nothing went wrong there.
A fair alliance had far more benefits for a new country than for a well-established country. After all, Wyba's country might need help from Tofesh's country, but Tofesh's country wouldn't need the strength of Wyba's country.
"Alright. Clair, come here and led our guest for the city. We are now allies, so treat him well."
At Wyba's order, the girl with dog ears opened the door and bowed in front of Wyba and Tofesh.
She was the self-proclaimed chief of the royal guard and the second strongest of the country despite being just a fifth level immortal.
Clair felt a deep veneration for Wyba since she was saved by her.
She had been the first one in asking to follow Wyba after being rescued and the one who trained the fastest.
From the start, she was the strongest of the rescued group since she had been the only one who could take half-beast form from before being rescued.
If Wyba hadn't appeared, Clair would have been sacrificed since she had already survived the torture of the rituals previous to the sacrifice.
Most beast girls were already mind-broken after the torture, but she managed to endure it, which honed her mind and boosted her training speed after escaping alive.
Clair had decided to live for Wyba's sake, and she would die without hesitation if Wyba ordered it.
There had been over ten thousand years since the previous country disappeared in which Wyba cleared the remnants of the country before she decided to make her own country there.
The training method of the beast girls was exactly the same one that Yale gave to his disciple in the past.
Before destroying that country, Wyba had been looking for her big brother, so she traveled to the first city Yale visited and met Yale's disciple, who taught her that method.
Wyba preferred to use her own training method for herself, but it was very useful when she needed to teach one to the rescued beast girls.
The main reason to name the country after her big brother's name was to catch his attention since all the traces of her big brother disappeared from some time before she ascended.
She knew that Yale was alive, but she was completely unable to locate him.
In fact, Tofesh also failed to locate Yale after succeeding in his breakthrough, but he guessed correctly where Yale was despite having to way to find him.
"By the way, Wyba. I think that I know where your big brother is, but we can't find him until he leaves."
Before leaving the room, Tofesh sent a divine sense message to Wyba, which provoked that Wyba replied immediately.
"Where?"
Wyba had given up in discovering where her big brother had been hiding, so he decided to attract his attention instead. Thus, she was glad to hear some clues about the topic.
"The Weapon Spirit Tribe. Knowing him, he should have gone there, but the space and the time of that tribe work separately from the rest of the universe, so unless they wanted you to find them, you can't. Even the flow of time is different."
After hearing Tofesh's reply, Wyba sighed. She missed a lot her big brother, which was also the reason for her to ascend instead of remaining behind to help to improve the universe, but after a long time, she still hadn't managed to find him.
Tofesh was guided for the city, which he hadn't seen before since he teleported directly to the palace where Wyba lived.
The city left Tofesh speechless because he had never seen a city so full of cute and fluffy things decorating it, and that wasn't including the young girls with beast ears and tail walking for the streets.
The country only had a single city, but it was a very peculiar one.
It was made at Wyba's taste since every member of the country developed the same taste for cute things as Wyba.
Among all those cute and fluffy things, there was one that stood out because it was a statue of a young man with a little wolf on his head.
That young man was Yale and the little wolf, Wyba. It had been Wyba's wish to put that statue in the center of the city.
"Sir, if you like art, I will lead you to the Wyba Museum. This sculpture is a masterpiece, but the sculptures and painting of the Wyba museum have the same quality."
Clair saw that Tofesh was stating the sculpture, so she made that offer, to which Tofesh agreed.
Tofesh really liked art, but the true reason he was staring the sculpture was that he was glad to see a sculpture of his friend in the center of a country.
The Wyba Museum was full of paintings and sculptures, and Wyba could be found in most of them, but the real reason of the museum's name was because Wyba was the one who created all of them.
Everything was from Wyba's past. Scenes about her with Yale and Aiwai, or her travels with Yale, just the two alone.
Ange and Lina also appeared in a lot of paintings and sculptures since they were both quite close to Wyba.
There were even scenes of the time Wyba spend in a lower universe with Yale's incarnation, Swordmad, and their master.
Everything at the museum irradiated a feeling of happiness since those were her happiest memories, and she wanted to share them with others.
There were only two painting that differed from the rest.
One of them was about Yale's wedding with Lina. Wyba wanted to honor her sister-in-law and show everyone that her big brother was married since she didn't want that any other women pestered her brother.
However, that painting, despite being different than the others, it also showed a happy scene, so the one that really caught the attention of everyone who visited the museum for the first time was the one at the most profound part of the museum as well as the most important one.
That last painting showed a wolf cub facing a huge fire attack, but a wolf and a human child were in front of the cub to protect it from the attack.
The impression was so different from the other paintings that most wondered why was there until they read the epigraph under the painting.
"My oldest memory. The day my mother died to save me, and my brother ended up injured. He wasn't my brother at that time, but he still risked his life to save me, who was a mere cub unrelated to him. My brother was the one who took care of me after I was left alone. I did the same with the people of this country after rescuing them. My brother never wanted me to repay him, nor I want anyone to repay me. However, if someday your strength can be used to save someone, remember your past and follow your heart."
Tofesh was the first outsider that saw those words, which until the moment had made cry every citizen that saw them since they all felt very identified with those words.
"It seems that we think in the same way."
He didn't cry, but his words were enough.
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