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After a while, Mr. Fool said calmly, "I'm not sure what the space full of gray and white fog you mentioned is, so I can't answer your question accurately. ?k!a^n+s!h`u~d·i/.·c￠o?m′"

"Of course, if you have more clues, maybe I can help answer them."

Bernadette bowed: "I understand."

"That's all for today."

After cutting off contact with everyone, Klein sat on the bronze chair, pressing his temple, with Bernadette's question still on his mind:

"The other space filled with gray and white fog, is it the gathering place of the Dusk Hermits, or is there really another space above the gray fog in this world?"

He suddenly had an inexplicable thought: Could it be that every time traveler is equipped with a Above the Grey Mist? For example... the girl he met on Simim Island also has her own Above the Grey Mist?

It shouldn't be that serious.

In that case, the three-stage method I designed...would not be able to point accurately at myself.

After a while,

Klein shook off the messy thoughts in his mind and said, "I should hurry up and digest the Faceless Man's potion... and then go find the Mysterious Queen to advance to Sequence 5."

...

"Medici, where have you been?"

When Medici came back, he found Priscilla looking for him everywhere. "You are not going to do something bad without telling me, are you?"

Medici snorted, "Do I need to hide my bad deeds from you, a little girl? I did it right in front of you and you didn't even know."

"I'm not that stupid!"

"What did you talk about at the party today?"

Priscilla sat on the sofa, picked up a glass of juice and drank it while saying, "Nothing, just a commissioned transaction or something."

"Did that kid show up?"

"No."

Priscilla's face showed some worry. "Brother Edward and Lilith still didn't attend the party this week. I don't know where they went.^0\0?暁¨说^网′ \醉¨欣,章-踕^更~鑫￠哙¨"

"Haha, I've said that getting involved with Adam will lead to bad consequences. That guy should be dead in a corner by now."

"No! Mr. Fool said that brother Edward is fine, he is just trapped somewhere."

Medici sneered, "Oh, so naive and ridiculous."

"Medici, you've become more and more annoying lately!"

"I was not born to be liked by others."

"But you were very nice before, and you told me bedtime stories every day."

"I was just kidding."

"…Are you sick?"

Medici laughed out loud: "What a joke! How could I be sick?!"

"Mental illness?"

Priscilla hesitated for a moment and said, "How about I ask Audrey to give you some psychological treatment?"

He smiled wryly: "Okay, but I don't know who will 'treat' whom then."

"Ah, I won't waste your time. Mr. World has just issued a commission to all of us. I have to go find someone to help with the investigation."

"What commission?"

"He asked me to help us investigate the whereabouts of a woman."

Priscilla squinted her eyes and thought about it, then transmitted the image to Medici: "That's her."

As a familiar face appeared in his mind, the smile on Medici's face disappeared:

"Lilith."

...

Trier for the past 1160 years.

Edward was a little disappointed.

After giving the three-stage formula to Medici, I waited until the evening, but I didn't hear Him recite three sentences to connect with Sefirah Castle.

I thought Medici was really fearless and fearless.

Huh?

Could it be that the sealed Medici couldn't speak and couldn't recite the three-part formula?

Thinking of this possibility, Edward was speechless. If this was true, it would be a bit embarrassing.

At dinner, Larder came to say goodbye to Edward.

He wanted to rush back and ask his grandfather about the ancestor Lilith.

It has to be said that the blood race, no matter what their quirks, personalities, or how unreliable they are, will immediately become very concerned once they are associated with the ancestor Lilith.

This is true for Lalder, and it will be true for Emlyn in the future as well.

"Aren't you going back with Lard?"

Edward asked, looking at Akasha.

"Can I go back too?"

She pointed at herself in astonishment: "I...don't I have to stay here as a hostage?"

"…"

Edward said with a smile, "I'm not a kidnapper, why do I need hostages?" He paused, "Akasha, you have to understand that you and Larder are working for me now to atone for your crimes. This is a punishment for you breaking into my house in the middle of the night. Moreover, I promised to give you what you want and signed a contract. From any angle, I am right."

"…"

Akasha slapped her thigh in annoyance, "Oh, you should have told me earlier, I didn't know!"

"I thought that since you used the matter of the ancestor Lilith to trick Lalder back, you had to keep me here and wait for him to come back and report to you."

Edward's action of cutting beef paused. As expected, this seemingly carefree and heartless female vampire actually saw things more clearly than anything else and knew what was going on in her mind.

"Since you knew everything, why didn't you stop Lalder from going back?"

"Why stop it?"

Akasha spread her hands and said, "I am actually very curious about what happened to our ancestor. There are rumors outside that he fell in the Third Age, but for thousands of years, the elders of the tribe have to report any major events to the ancestor. It's very contradictory, isn't it?"

"Especially in the last few hundred years, I heard that the First Ancestor Lilith has responded many times."

The last few hundred years... for the immortal species, the last few hundred years are just the recent past.

She continued, "It's the First Ancestor's responses that are always so strange that the elders in the clan are confused."

"Strange?"

Edward's heart moved, "Why is it so strange?"

"This... How could I possibly know? I am just a small baron. It is already a great honor for me to be able to hear it from my grandfather."

"So, I'm afraid that Larde won't gain anything when he returns this time?"

"Not necessarily."

Akasha shook her finger. "If what you said, Mr. Sparrow, is true, and there really is a Beyonder claiming to be the ancestor of Lilith, then the nature of this matter has changed. I believe that the old guys in the clan will definitely not pretend that nothing happened."

"Hey, I'm waiting to see the show."

"…"

This Akasha is indeed no different from the one two hundred years later. When she went to the outskirts of Backlund (the world event in the book), she originally went to watch a play.

Edward picked up the sweet iced tea and took a sip, thinking about what Akasha had just said - in the past few hundred years, Lilith's responses had been strange many times?

He suddenly thought of a possibility:

Will he respond to the vampires, who don't even know the vampires' Lilith, but their own Lilith?

Everyone knows that in the mysterious world, if a person has the same name as a god, he or she may become the body of the god.

But if there are two "gods" with the same name, when someone prays using their names, which one will receive the message? (When the vampires pray, they call Lilith the First Ancestor or the First Ancestor Lilith directly, not in three parts)

Although Lilith had failed in her fight with Chick to advance to Sequence 0, since she would dare to go to the Star Realm to fight Chick in the future, she would have to be at least a Sequence 1—plus, the vampire Lilith was currently in a "dead" state.

Then it seems to make sense that the vampires prayed to the "dead" Lilith, and then were "intercepted" by their own Lilith.

By the way, combined with the "apology" of the future vampire Lilith - the close relationship between our own Lilith and the vampire Lilith seems to have been further confirmed.

I hope Lalder can really bring me some good news.

Chapter 488 Exploring the Ruins

Two days later, early in the morning, Edward had just finished washing up.

There was a loud knock on the door.

"Come in."

Akasha, who was wearing a suit, walked in with the notebook that belonged to Lalder in her hand. She said, "Mr. Sparrow, Dubois asked me to ask you, we will be moving to the new villa in a few days. Do you want to take the opportunity to hold a cocktail party? If you want to, you can prepare the invitations now."

Edward thought for a moment and said, "We only need to invite Russell and his family. After all, I don't know anyone else now."

"Tsk tsk tsk, Mr. Sparrow, your idea is a typical wrong thinking of ordinary people."

"how?"

"For a cocktail party among nobles, it doesn't mean that you have to have a good relationship with them to invite them to attend. On the contrary, many times, it is because you are not familiar with them that you invite them. In this way, you will gradually become familiar with each other, right?"

Edward thought for a moment and said, "What you said makes sense."

"But let's talk about it later. For the first party after moving into a new house, I would rather invite people I know."

"Haha, I'm just afraid that Russell is unwilling to give you face."

"That doesn't matter, we can just celebrate at home."

"Well, it's your own house, you decide for yourself,"

Akasha shrugged and turned away.

"Wait, what's up with your clothes?"

She turned around and puffed out her chest, "I am now helping Lalder as his personal valet. I want double the salary during this period!"

"I think that if you change your lower body into a short skirt, it might be more in line with your current status."

Akasha laughed, "Should I pair it with black stockings?"

Edward was surprised: "Do you understand it very well?"

Akasha said disdainfully: "...Isn't this the sex toy suit invented by that 'Son of Steam' Roselle? Do you think I... don't know? Oh, you don't have any ideas about me, do you?"

Fog.

It's obviously a normal OL suit, how did it become a sexy suit?

Emperor Roselle, what on earth have you done to this world?

"Get out quickly."

"Okay."

After Akasha left the room, Edward logged into Sefirah Castle again and materialized the green crystal to divine: "It will be dangerous to go to that 'treasure' today..."

Recite silently seven times, and the green crystal will slowly rotate counterclockwise.

"Then let's go and see what's in the ruins that Intis mentioned today, and what kind of trap is waiting for me."

hiss--

It seems that I am not a "pure-blooded" Gou Sanjia.

If it were Klein, facing this unknown "relic", no matter how curious he was, he would definitely stay away from it - well, it must be the sequelae left from when he played the role of a "mental patient".

Just as Edward was about to leave Sephira Castle, he heard a soft voice in his ears, and the star symbolizing Bernadette in the depths of the gray fog began to flicker.

"Why is this girl looking for me so early in the morning?"

He spread his spirituality, and the image of Bernadette appeared in the gray fog. She was sitting at the desk with her chin in her hand, and whispered expectantly: "Mr. Sparrow, it's been two days. Isn't it time to take me to find the mermaid? ·Xin?End/Ben·鉮-占? ,免+沸,悦_渎."

Edward then remembered that he seemed to have casually promised her two days ago that he would take her to find the mermaid "in a few days" - but that was just an adult social etiquette, and she actually took it seriously.

Didn't the emperor teach her anything about China's "classic" cultural customs?

He thought for a moment and replied, "I have to go do something very important later. If everything goes well, I'll take you there in the evening."

Soon, Bernadette raised a question: "What if it doesn't go well?"

"Then another day."

Without paying any more attention to her response, Edward left Sephira Castle, had a unique but not very tasty breakfast in the restaurant, and then planned to go out.

"Where's DuBois?"

Akasha, the housekeeper and valet, said, "It seems he has returned to his room. He seems to have taken a magic potion last night and became an Extraordinary, but he can't control the dissipation of his spiritual power at all. It's as if he's afraid that others don't know that he is an Extraordinary."

Edward was surprised: "After becoming a Beyonder, can the spirituality still dissipate?"

"This is normal. Many wild Beyonders will always encounter this kind of trouble in the early stages if they don't have a teacher to guide them. Of course, if we have to find a reason, it's probably... being too stupid."

However, Susie accidentally drank the audience potion, and there was no news of any spiritual escape. Oh, yes, she is the future fantasy dog, not just anyone can compare.

"How long will he continue like this?"

"Just wait until he learns to meditate."

Edward nodded, "Please give him some pointers later."

"OK."

"I'm going to take care of some personal matters in the study, so don't disturb me."

She shrugged, dismissing the issue: "Oh, I have to go out again."

"You are so smart, there are some things you don't need to say."

Akasha grinned. "Wouldn't that make me look very cunning? No, no, I just like to speak my mind. It's so tiring to pretend all day long. "

"If one day I become like those old guys, either I am forced to do so, or I am no longer myself."

After that, she walked away holding the notebook. Not long after, she kicked the door and said, "Dubois, open the door quickly. I'm here to give you some advice."

Edward suddenly became thoughtful. If what Akasha just said was true, then in the short time he spent with her in the future, although she seemed carefree and outspoken most of the time, she would occasionally act mysterious.

So, was there someone forcing her? Or was she no longer "her" at that time?

Alas, perhaps I can only answer this question when I see her again 200 years later.

"Endiri."

Edward remembered something and looked at Endili, who was dressed as a cook, and said, "Today's breakfast is very good, but don't make it next time."

"???"

There was a look of confusion on her face - Master Intis, why can't I understand what you are saying?

Hey, this is called the "art" of language.

Back in the study, Edward used [False Reality] as usual to disguise himself, and then teleported to a mountainous area between Intis and Feynaport.

He walked along the rugged mountain road all the way down to the edge of a cliff, then jumped down, switched to spirit form, and quickly fell into a ravine nearly a thousand meters deep, coming to a valley covered with thorns.

A river was rushing from afar, making a bend beside the cliff in front. Looking up, the rock walls on both sides were bare, showing pure white rocks, with an unusually holy beauty.

Rocks…holy?

This is obviously not normal.

Edward threw the stick and it floated in the air. After shaking for a while, it tilted in a direction and pointed to a place covered with thorns.

He waved his wand and cast a transfiguration spell. All the thorns immediately moved quickly to both sides, revealing a cave filled with huge rocks.

Through the gaps between the stones, you can vaguely see a black marble staircase leading underground.

"Is this it?"

Edward ejected the gold coin: "It will be dangerous to go deeper."

Numbers facing up indicate a negative.

"Then go in and see for yourself."

In his spiritual state, he ignored the collapsed boulders, passed through them, stepped onto the black stairs, and then floated down along them, gradually going deeper into the ground.

This was obviously an old relic. Perhaps due to the erosion of time, the patterns engraved on the walls on both sides of the entrance could no longer be seen clearly. Until we reached the bottom, we saw a huge, heavy, double-opening dark gray stone door blocking the way forward.

On both sides of the door are two asymmetrical stone pillars, and the door panel is engraved with patterns that look like they were cut by knives or axes.

"Asymmetric?"

This seems to be the architectural style that Solomon favored during the Quaternary Period.

This is obviously a genuine ancient relic, and maybe it is related to the Abraham family, but is that Intis really so kind? Why did he deny knowing any clues about the Abraham family at the beginning?

After hesitating for a few minutes, all kinds of doubts were summarized into the old saying:

You're here!

But he did not rush in through the door. Instead, he reached out and pressed the stone door, with lightning flashing in his eyes.

The next moment, a spiritual tide surged, and surging silver-white thunder shot out from Edward's palms, instantly penetrating the stone door and pouring into the inside, flying into the dark and gloomy ruins.

Boom!

The earth trembled slightly, fierce light emerged from the cracks, and bursts of dust fell with the vibration.

More than ten seconds later.

As the silver-white lightning dissipated, the shaking of the earth stopped.

Edward waited outside the stone gate for another quarter of an hour. After making sure that nothing was wrong, he passed through the stone gate and entered the ruins. Dozens of stones floated up and transformed into lanterns floating on both sides, lighting up the dark place.

"Empty?"

As we went forward, many of the stones that had fallen to the ground had turned into glass because of the thunder just now. The walls on both sides were smooth and clean without any murals, no lurking monsters, and no mechanisms, so there was no gain.

This relic seems to be empty.

Edward suddenly remembered that in the original book, when the Church of the God of Steam and Machinery once explored the "Amon Family Tomb", a similar situation occurred.

So, this is also a "Tomb of Amon"?

While thinking, Edward walked to the innermost part of the ruins, or mausoleum. There was a corridor leading to a deeper place. If his guess was correct, there should be a portrait of Amon hanging on the wall at the end of the corridor...

Huh?

No?

What came into view was a black stone door with patterns that looked like they were cut by knives or axes. Compared to the two sides of the corridor that were either carbonized or vitrified by the thunder just now, this stone door did not leave any trace at all, which was obviously very extraordinary.

In the middle of the stone gate is a figure that looks like a "gate" composed of unnoble lines, and in the middle of the "gate" are twinkling stars.

This is... the coat of arms of the Abraham family?

So this relic really belongs to Abraham's family?

Chapter 489: Mr. Pales

That "Intis" actually told the truth?

Edward took a few steps closer and came to the stone door. Thunder flashed between his palms again, trying to pour it into the space behind the stone door. Unfortunately, such a powerful thunder force died down in front of the door, leaving almost no trace.

It seems that the real owner of the ruins is behind this door.

Just a little help.

Edward suddenly disappeared from the spot, and reappeared two or three minutes later - he had already completed the operation of summoning himself and responding to himself. Even if there was danger behind the stone door, he could retreat to Sefirah Castle in the first place.

He took a step forward, trying to pass through the stone door again.

But it failed.