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In fact, she let her daughter Bernadette take it secretly when she was free to move around. It was normal for children to take a piece of clothing out of curiosity and playfulness. Even if they were caught, they would at most be considered naughty.

"…"

After hearing his words, Edward couldn't help but remain silent: This Russell really can keep breaking new records.

"So, the question you want to ask tonight is how to stop the Hidden Sage from targeting you?"

Roselle was in a state of hesitation. He originally thought that since this mysterious "evil god" had provided the information about the hidden sage targeting his family "for free", he would just answer this question without any hesitation.

Unexpectedly, there is still a charge.

He doesn't look like an evil god, but a profiteer!

Roselle originally planned to use today's questioning opportunity to try to ask about the matter of time travel again, but now... should he take care of his own safety first?

After struggling for a while, Roselle asked, "I want to know... Is the Hidden Sage coming for me? Why?"

"Oh? Why did you suddenly change the question?"

Roselle pretended to be innocent and scratched his head and smiled, "In fact, I also asked the Archbishop of Trier the same question just now. His answer at that time was that as long as the Hidden Sage died, the problem would be solved naturally."

"I'm worried that your answer is the same... Maybe this is a correct answer, but it doesn't make any sense to me."

"I have also asked the archbishop about this new question, but he chose to keep silent. Although I think this is a kind of tacit consent, I want to know 'why' more."

"Why would such a 'long-established' evil god target me?"

What Roselle didn't say was whether the Hidden Sage had discovered his identity as a time traveler and wanted to do something - such as using him to invade the original Earth or something.

Ahhh, why are the identities of other time travelers not discovered until the end of the story?

Why am I so unlucky?

Edward leaned back and said slowly, "I'm not sure if the Hidden Sage is coming for you. I can only tell you that Stiano and the Hidden Sage are natural enemies. Only one of them can survive in the end."

"But what does that have to do with me?"

"Perhaps it's because you are Stiano's follower?"

"Well, I am not the only one who has His favor."

"But you are the only one who can help Stiano and stabilize His position as God." Edward laughed. "Otherwise, why do you think He changed His name from the God of Craftsmen to the God of Steam and Machinery?"

Roselle was shocked. He could feel that the church or the gods valued him, but he never thought that he would be so important to a true God.

According to the person in front of him, the God of Steam and Machinery and the Hidden Sage are mortal enemies, so the latter naturally does not want to sit idly by and watch the former consolidate his position as a god and become stronger.

So, he targeted himself as the "culprit"?

It really is... an unexpected disaster.

Chapter 501: The Emperor Can Only Suffer First

In this case, if I insist on going out to sea, wouldn't it be very dangerous?

Otherwise, or...

Before the thought of giving in even occurred to him, he immediately denied it: If I were really so scared and cowardly, it would be too frustrating for me to be a time traveler.

Thinking of this, Roselle asked seriously: "Sir, how can I obtain your protection?"

Edward was slightly surprised. Haven't you always been cautious with me? Why do you suddenly want my protection?

"Isn't it enough to have Stiano protecting you?"

"But His protection always requires me to go to church. How is this different from restricting my freedom?"

Edward pretended to think for a moment, "It's still the same rule as before. If you help me do something, I can protect you to a certain extent.!q\d?h~b_s￠.!c?o,m\"

"Please go ahead."

"Go to Stiano's church and take out a sealed object. It doesn't matter what it is, as long as it is a sealed object."

"!!!"

Good, good, this evil god is finally beginning to reveal His true purpose.

Did He want a seal of the church?

This time it's a random item, next time it will definitely be restricted to a certain item… and the next time maybe it will be designated to a level 1 or even level 0 sealed item!

This is just digging holes for me to jump into.

Edward saw Russell's reaction.

It was not difficult for a smart man like Roselle to see his plan, but what he didn't know was that what this "evil god" actually wanted was not a powerful level 1 or level 0 seal, but just a level 2 dog-licking mirror.

"Anything else?"

Russell hesitated for a few seconds and asked in a low voice, "Excuse me, are there other people like me in this world?"

"Someone like you?"

Edward repeated, saying lightly, "No more."

"You are the only special person at this moment."

"I'll give you this question for free."

After saying that, he disconnected from Roselle.

His final answer was not a lie: the last person who went down from Sefirah Castle, Amanesis, had already been promoted to the Goddess of Night and lived in the astral world; the next Klein would have to wait nearly 200 years; as for Edward himself, he came from the Harry Potter world, which was completely different from them.

Therefore, at this time, Roselle is indeed the only special existence.

...

Russell sat in the study and opened his eyes.

"Did He understand what I really wanted to say in His last answer?"

"Is there really no other time traveler in this world? Then the doll I gave to Bernadette before... was it just my overthinking?"

"Or did He just follow my question and give me another half-answer?"

Russell pinched his fingers and gritted his teeth and said, "Fuck, I'm really tired of this guessing game."

"Next time we meet...why not just make it clear."

If my time travel was really directed by Him, then isn't it ridiculous for me to be suspicious and act all the time?

If my crossing had nothing to do with Him, then now that He knows and is sure of it, what can He do? Can He slice me up and study me to find a way to go to another world?

If it were really that simple, He would have just done it. Would He not need me to admit it in person?

...

While Russell was struggling, Edward was sitting in Sefirah Castle, observing his reaction at the moment:

He could probably guess what Russell was thinking at the moment. If it were him, he would probably fall into a similar mentality.

But there's nothing I can do.

For my own sake, I can only bear with you, the Great Emperor, for now.

When the future comes, I will definitely do my best to save you!

Until then, I just wish you good morning, good afternoon and good night.

Peace and prosperity every year.

...

The villa of the Earl of Cleary.

When the old earl confirmed again and again that his grandson was really crippled, he smashed everything that could be smashed in the house and fell into a frenzy of rage.

"I want everyone involved to die!!!"

"That woman, the people who hired her, the people who are responsible for protecting Wales, and those guys at the scene... Don't let any of them go!"

"Quick! Immediately! Right now! Go!"

The housekeeper said carefully: "The woman's employer was bailed out by Roselle this morning."

"What did you say?"

Earl Clear glared at him, his cloudy pupils revealing a fierce light, "Why didn't you tell me earlier?"

"You were accompanying Master Wells at that time..."

"Roselle!!"

He was like a wounded lion, with his hair and beard standing up. "I understand, I understand!"

"All of this was planned by Roselle. He planned all of this! He did it to avenge my previous suppression of him!"

"Okay, okay, okay! In that case, I don't have to give face to the church!"

"I'm going to offer a huge reward to those damned Beyonders. The reward is for Roselle's head!"

At this time, a suppressed scream was heard, and then a blond man in his twenties was carried up on a stretcher. His face was pale and crazy: "Grandpa, I want... I want to kill that woman with my own hands! Quick! Take me to find that woman, quick!"

"No, Wells."

Facing his grandson, Earl Clear calmed down a lot. "What you need most now is to have a good rest. Don't worry. Although ordinary doctors can't help you, don't forget those extraordinary people. They may have some special methods."

"I don't care! I'm going to... kill that woman right now! Come on, take me there."

He struggled desperately and rolled off the stretcher to the ground, which tore his wounds and caused him to scream in pain.

"Take Wells back to rest."

Wells struggled angrily, "Grandpa, Grandpa!!! Leave that woman to me, I want...I want to kill her with my own hands! I must kill her with my own hands!!"

"Otherwise, I will never forgive you!"

...

midnight.

Akasha turned into a shadow and shuttled through the darkness. She cursed as she ran: "Luckily I didn't believe their lies and really went to kill people, otherwise I would have died on the spot!"

"There are four Sequence 5s guarding inside and outside, and you let me, a Sequence 6, go and assassinate him. I really believed your lies!"

A dazzling light descended from the sky and projected towards Akasha's head.

She paused immediately, changed direction and continued to escape.

But another Sequence 5 Beyonder had been waiting for a long time. He fired a shot, and the bullet approached her instantly with terrifying power. It seemed that there was only one bullet, but it seemed to have blocked all her escape routes.

Illusory wings appeared behind Akasha, and she soared into the sky, barely avoiding the bullet.

But before she could continue to escape, her brain suddenly seemed to be hit hard. The pain made her dizzy and she fell straight to the ground.

The three Sequence 5 Beyonders immediately surrounded her. If the Count had not wanted to keep her alive, it would have been difficult for the woman to leave the villa alive.

At this moment, the three of them felt dazed at the same time. When they woke up, they were already standing where the woman had landed, but -

"Where are the people?"

There was no one in front of him, and the woman seemed to have disappeared out of thin air.

They still refused to believe it and searched the surrounding area thoroughly. After more than ten minutes, they had to admit: she really ran away.

For a moment, the faces of the three men were terribly gloomy.

"Some kind of sealing object must have been used."

"nonsense."

"We are really embarrassed this time."

Three Sequence 5s chased one Sequence 6, but she escaped. They were so embarrassed.

The three of them looked at each other, not knowing what to do.

At this time, another figure came from a distance and quickly landed in front of the three people. It was Earl Clear's fourth Sequence 5 bodyguard. "Where is that woman?"

"…She escaped. She must have some seal for the apprenticeship path."

"Oh, what's the point of talking about this? Let's think about how to explain it to Earl Clear."

The extraordinary person who came later showed a strange smile on his face: "One good news and one bad news, which one do you want to hear?"

"…It's already this time, why are you still playing this?"

The man said calmly: "The good news is that you don't have to worry about how to explain to Earl Clear.,w?dsh,u`c^h·en·g,.\c￠o/m~"

"Why?"

"The bad news is that Earl Clear died right after you chased him out."

"…"

"The worse news is that we are out of work."

"..."

...

Akasha opened her eyes in confusion and found that the room in front of her was very familiar - wasn't this Mr. Sparrow's study?

How did I end up here?

"You really went to assassinate Earl Clear?"

Edward's voice came over. He was wearing a suspender vest and sitting on the edge of the desk with his hands folded, with a complicated expression on his face.

Although Edward knew in advance that this matter was related to the Sunset Senior Group, he did not expect the action to come so quickly. Akasha was only arrested in the morning, and the action was launched that evening.

Fortunately, when I visited her during the day, I had left a backup plan for Akasha.

"Of course I'm not that stupid!"

Akasha looked like she was not that stupid. "I just pretended to agree to that guy's request and pretended to assassinate that earl. But I actually ran away when I found the opportunity."

"But I was obviously careful enough at the time, but I was still discovered by those three guys, and they chased me all the way."

At this point she asked, "What happened next? I just remember that my head felt like it was going to explode, and I lost consciousness for a short time. When I opened my eyes again, I was here."

Edward said, "What else could happen? I rushed over and rescued you."

Akasha laughed. "I was wondering how you could leave me there, boss. It turns out you have a backup plan. Hmm! You're as reliable as me!"

"It's not reliable at all!"

He glared at her unhappily, "You've been used as a stick from the beginning to the end, do you know that?"

"What do you mean?"

"Earl Clear is dead. He was assassinated in his bedroom shortly after you led the three bodyguards away." Edward said, "They never counted on you from the beginning to the end. They just used you as bait.",3/3.k?a¨n~s_h,u¨.\c`o-m_"

"What?"

Akasha was immediately furious. "That means even if I succeed in killing that old man, he won't give me what he promised to give me?"

"…"

So you really wanted to assassinate him, but you were too weak, so you backed down.

Chapter 502: Aurora Club Arrives Late

She suddenly frowned and asked, "But what if I didn't run away and actually went to assassinate him? Facing four Sequence 5s, I would definitely be captured on the spot. How did they plan to assassinate that old man?"

"Either they knew you would definitely escape, or they had other plans, or maybe this was just a random attempt. Anyway, judging from the result, they achieved their goal."

Anyway, judging from the Twilight Recluse's attempt to assassinate Duke Negan in the original novel, although it experienced a failure, Duke Negan died in the end, and all the people involved also died - the Twilight Recluse kept their merits and fame hidden, and completed the advancement of the trend of the times.

The only thing that made Edward wary was whether this assassination was arranged by "Intis" and was specifically aimed at him -

If Intis really put something important in this villa, he would not have let down his guard just because of his previous "investigation intelligence". While completing the assassination of Earl Clear, he could also test the residents here, killing two birds with one stone.

In this case, this matter may not be over yet.

Thinking of this, Edward waved his hand and opened the traveler's door, "Let's go."

"Where are you going?"

"Of course I'm sending you back to Feynaporte, Miss, your accomplice in the assassination of Count Clear."

"…When did I become an accomplice? Who said I was an accomplice?"

"After tonight, everyone in Trier will say the same thing."

"…"

Akasha clenched her fists, her blood-red eyes turned and she said righteously, "Boss, Mr. Sparrow, as your butler, I was played with and used by others, and even almost lost my life. How is this different from humiliating you? Can you tolerate this kind of humiliation? Anyway, I can't tolerate it!"

Edward glanced at her and said, "I endured it."

"No, where is your dignity as a demigod? Shouldn't you just fight back against this kind of thing?"

"If you really can't bear it, go back to Feynaport and call your parents, grandfather, great-grandfather and even the old guys in the clan to help you vent your anger."

She actually started thinking seriously, and after a moment she frowned and said, "But I don't even know who those guys are?"

Edward was about to say something, but suddenly he raised his eyebrows and smiled: "Maybe you'll know now."

"What?"

Edward did not answer her. The demigod-level spirituality surged, and [False Reality] instantly covered the entire villa, putting everything under his control.

"Let's go and see who the real assassin of Earl Clear is."

Of course Edward knew that the source of tonight's assassination was the Twilight Hermits, but while the Twilight Hermits pushed the trend of the times, they adhered to one principle: never do it themselves.

In the future, when assassinating Duke Negan, they would first look for people from Qilingos and the Demon Family.

Tonight's assassination of Earl Clear was carried out with the cooperation of Akasha and another person.

Akasha's eyes lit up immediately, and she rubbed her hands together, "Boss, please help me control him later, and let me do it myself."

As the two walked down the stairs, they saw a man wearing a gray coat, a gentleman's hat, and smelling of blood, coming through the wall.

Facing the two people a few meters away, he seemed to see nothing. He first glanced at the stairs on the second floor with a smile, and then walked straight towards the basement.

"Huh?"

Edward was surprised and stopped Akasha who was about to rush forward, "Take another look."

The man walked quickly to the basement, and then went straight to the corner with a clear goal, pressed his palms on the floor, and then injected spirituality.

With a creaking sound, the area that was injected with spirituality slowly shrank, revealing a wrist-length metal stick that looked like it was made of brass.

He leaned over, stretched out his hand, grabbed the stick, slowly applied force, and slowly twisted it to pull it out.

The surface of this brass stick was engraved with shallow circles of lines, but I didn't feel any extraordinary power, and I didn't know what it was for.

Not only Edward thought so, the man in the coat also looked confused.

After a few minutes of study, he took out a black bag and put the brass stick in it. He turned around and walked out, with excitement and cruelty gradually flashing in his eyes.

But at this moment, he saw two people appearing behind him as if out of thin air.

"Frenzy!"

He used the Psychologist's Frenzy without hesitation, and then his body suddenly swelled up, his skin turned dark, two curved goat horns with evil patterns grew on his head, and wings filled with the smell of sulfur flapped behind him. His height suddenly reached nearly three meters, and he turned into a demonic creature.

He roared and pounced towards Edward and Akasha.

"What is that?"

Akasha was startled and subconsciously pulled Edward back, but found that he took a step forward instead, with ancient gears turning in his eyes.

The next second, the "demon" that was running towards him shrank rapidly, and in the blink of an eye he turned back into his human form. His eyes were full of disbelief - he found that he had dropped from a Sequence 5 shepherd to a Sequence 6!

And this "degeneration" continued, and soon it became Sequence 7 again!

Even a crazy fanatic like him was horrified at this moment:

What is going on? !

Edward reached out and stole his current thoughts, and was slightly surprised: Someone from the Aurora Society?

Tsk, as expected, Aurora will eventually reveal all the dirty and messy things in the mysterious world, even if it's late.

After a brief thought, he used his invisible hand to grab the other person and teleported her and Akasha to the outskirts of Trier.

As soon as he landed, the "shepherd" regained consciousness. He immediately dived into the shadows and tried to escape. Suddenly, a silver-white lightning struck the shadow he had transformed into, splitting it into a piece of charcoal. A Sequence 5 shepherd was easily killed in an instant.