Shumi's white hair flowed freely in the wind, the veil no longer covering her heavenly beauty. Alex saw her face and was stunned by her beauty. Something like this had never happened to him before in his life.
There had been one time when he thought he was attracted to someone. It was in the Eclipsing Heaven realm when he met the Winter God for the first time. She was someone who had made his heart race, just as Shumi had said.
However, after meeting the Storm God, who made him feel a similar degree of reverence toward him, Alex had quickly realized that he hadn't fallen in love with the Winter God or anything. It was just how one felt when they were around her.
She was—as Rosemist called them—a Half-God. His master had more or less confirmed that Half-Gods were very much different from regular gods, with abilities and powers that were beyond regular measures.
