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"Never came once?"

"Yes. `Micro? Fun_Xiao^Tax^Wang* +Chong/Xin/嶵/Quan~"

Huh?

At that time, I told her that I had to leave for three days because of something. It was normal that she didn't come during these three days, but she didn't come on the fourth day either - the key point was that she didn't pray to me.

This is a bit inconsistent with the little girl's personality.

After thinking for a while, he tossed the gold coin: "Bernadette is in danger."

Numbers facing up indicate a negative.

He tossed the coin again: "It's dangerous to go find Bernadette now."

This time it was head facing up.

He frowned and thought of a possibility, but he was still worried and stood up and walked to the bathroom: "I'm full, let's clean up."

"Yes, Mr. Sparrow."

As soon as he entered the bathroom, Edward skillfully completed the self-response summons through the ritual, then put on an invisibility cloak, activated the [Stealth] effect, and flew towards the Roselle family villa.

Almost the moment they entered Roselle's home, their spirit began to beat, conveying the danger.

Edward hesitated for a moment, transformed into Zaratul, and entered the yard.

He was about to go straight to Bernadette's room when he suddenly felt a sharp gaze from the side. Turning his head, he saw an old man dressed in the uniform of a bishop of the Church of the God of Steam and Machinery sitting on a swing in the garden, swinging and looking at him.

Is this... the Archbishop of the Church?

Well,

Isn't it strange that a centenarian archbishop is swinging on a swing?

"Don't move~"

At this time, Bernadette's voice came. She was wearing a beret, sitting on a high stool, and drawing for the archbishop on the drawing board.

Well, that makes sense.

At this moment, Edward's previous guess was verified. Bernadette did not come home because someone did not allow her to go - he thought it was someone from the church, but he did not expect it to be the archbishop of the church.

But it is easy to understand. After all, Roselle is now the treasure of the Church of the God of Steam and Machinery. When he is out, he must protect the safety of his family.

Then, another previous puzzle was also answered: Why were there no high-sequence strongmen from the church in the previous extraordinary events?

It was obvious that the church learned the news in advance and let those people do whatever they wanted.

But why?

Is it "Intis" or someone else who has such a big face that he can even convince the church?

It seems that the commission from "Intis" may be far more complicated than I thought.

Edward waved and smiled at the Archbishop, ended the summons and returned to Sefirah Castle. The Archbishop then withdrew his gaze and cooperated with Bernadette like a naughty old boy.

"Hehe, this is for you."

Bernadette then took down the painting and trotted over, handing the watercolor painting to the archbishop: it was a strange old man wearing pink clothes and a pink skirt, with his hair and beard flying, happily swinging on a swing.

"Ha ha ha ha."

The Archbishop laughed and said, "Thank you, Miss Bernadette. I will definitely keep this painting well."

"ah?"

The little girl was a little disappointed. This annoying old man...wouldn't he be angry?

Since he came here four days ago, he hasn't left. Not only does he restrict everyone from coming in and out, he doesn't even allow me to go out. It's so annoying!

But Bernadette knew him and knew that he was a person of very high status in the church. Even her father would be very respectful when he met him, so naturally she didn't dare to act recklessly.

She pursed her lips and looked in the direction of Emerald Street:

Oh, I don't know if Mr. Sparrow has come back.

Chapter 565: Seeing the Little Snake Again

Inside the source castle.

The little crow Amon pinched his monocle with his wing and said in sudden realization: "So you used this method to return to Sefirah Castle instantly? What a clever idea. `Maru~ben!鰰`戦· ·追￠?辛^蟋蟀.接!"

"Unfortunately, it seems that only you can use this method. After all, the Beyonders of the other three paths cannot switch between spirit and entity at will."

"But why do you have this ability? This doesn't seem like a recorded extraordinary ability at all."

Edward smiled and said, "That's a good question. You must be bored here alone, so I'll leave it to you to figure it out slowly."

Amon nodded: "Yeah, that's true."

He jumped a few times in the cage. "By the way, didn't you say you wanted to give me humanity? How are you going to do that? I'm actually more curious about this."

"Speaking of which, I think I have always been quite human. I often find ways to have fun, especially playing hide-and-seek with the descendants of Jacob's family. It's so much fun."

Edward held the gold coin in his hand, letting it twirl flexibly between his fingers, and said, "Doing anything just for fun is precisely a manifestation of a lack of human nature, because you don't have the desires that a 'human' should have."

"No, I have desires. Haven't I always been working hard to become the Lord of Mysteries?"

"I don't think that's due to your desire, but more like the result of the law of convergence of Beyonder characteristics. You think you 'want', but in fact it's just an 'instinct'."

Amon suddenly fell silent.

After a moment, He nodded thoughtfully, "This... is a completely new way of understanding."

"Then, according to this way of understanding, if I insist on going against my 'instinct', refusing to meet with Beyonder characteristics, and refusing to become the Lord of the Mysteries, does that mean that I have human nature?"

Edward shrugged, "Then I don't know, but you can try."

"Ha ha ha ha."

Amon laughed. "You have a good plan. Unfortunately, I am just a clone. Even if you really convince me, it won't affect my real body."

bite.

Edward tossed the gold coin and smiled slightly, "Take your time. There's no rush."

"…"

For a moment, Amon inexplicably felt that there seemed to be something extra in his brain, but when he felt carefully, it seemed that there was no change, as if it was just an illusion.

But He was very sure that the other party must have done something to Him just now.

What is it?

What method is used?

How is this done?

Does it have anything to do with the gold coins in his hand?

Questions arose from the bottom of his heart one after another. Amon was suddenly stunned: "Is my curiosity... a little too strong today?"

In the past, I was curious about unknown things, but it was mostly for fun. But just now... it seemed like it was just pure curiosity.

Could this be what he meant by giving me humanity?

But...

Why do I feel like this isn't a bad thing?

Seeing Amon's puzzled look, Edward just smiled: Just as he said just now, take your time, there's no rush.

Every few days, through the reversal of "Madman on the Right", a little bit of humanity is forced into Amon, which is neither too much nor too little, and will not exceed the range that Sefirah Castle can bear on his behalf.

"Next, let's go thank the little snake first, and then go find Pales to check on the status of those 'evil spirits'."

Thinking of this, he waved to Amon and disappeared into the small garden shrouded in gray mist.

Amon stared at Edward's empty seat, and suddenly chuckled. He turned his head like a woodpecker and used his sharp beak to peck at a spot in the birdcage quickly.

A small hole had already appeared faintly at the place where it was pecked.

...

Edward was naturally aware of Amon's behavior as a woodpecker, but he did not stop it, and pretended not to notice.

joke,

It wasn't the birdcage that trapped Amon, but some kind of "rule" that was reversed by "Madman on the Right". When Amon tried his best to peck open the birdcage, he found that... He still couldn't leave the range of the birdcage.

Just find something for Him to do.

Perfumery shop at 125 rue Montorgueil, Opera district.

As soon as he reached the door, he saw a woman in a black dress walking out of the spice shop with the help of a maid and walking towards the luxurious carriage parked on the side of the road.

As the two passed each other, the woman in the black dress glanced sideways at Edward, then nodded slightly and got into the carriage.

Edward then remembered who this woman was - the woman who had moved to Emerald Street some time ago. At that time, he had just learned that the witch named Marcia looked relatively "ordinary" because she wore a human skin mask, so he subconsciously had more speculations about this woman in black robe.

But later everything was back to normal, nothing happened, and he didn't think too much about it - he didn't have any paranoia.

When I turned around, I saw the little snake Will Auceptin hiding stealthily behind a truck at the door, holding a bowl of ice cream in his hand, eating while looking in the direction of the store entrance.

"Will! You stole ice cream again!!"

Suddenly, the mother's voice came from behind. The little snake's hair stood up in fear. He quickly turned around and hid the ice cream behind him, shouting: "I'm not eating ice cream! There is no evidence to prove that I ate ice cream..."

At this moment, he saw clearly that the person coming was Edward, and he immediately said angrily: "You... are so wicked!"

Edward walked over and squatted with him behind the truck, and said with a smile: "Are you so afraid of this 'restarted' mother?"

"Isn't that what should be done?"

Will licked his ice cream spoon and said, "You think every restart is just 'surrogate birth'? She is my biological mother, so of course I have to respect her and listen to her."

"Surrogacy... that's not how it's used, right?"

"Who knows? Anyway, that's what Lilith said to me at the beginning."

Edward groaned, "Okay, I understand."

Will narrowed his eyes at him and said, "You didn't come here just to scare me."

"Of course not. I came here specially to thank you. Thank you for blessing me with good luck two days ago. 'Tian ^ Xi _ Xiao ? Tax * King + · has been * published / the most _ happy, show? conclusion ¨"

He waved his hand and said, "No need. The little bit of luck I gave you back then can't play a big role. The key still depends on other big guys and yourself."

After a pause, he said, "Besides, my full attention was on other things at the time, so I had no time to care about you."

"You are referring to the extraordinary events of that evening in Trier?"

"Um."

Edward moved closer and asked in a low voice, "Can you tell me what happened?"

"Hmm."

He held the spoon in his mouth and raised his head to think for a while. "A fool who thought he was very smart, after careful planning and arrangement, successfully deceived himself and his descendants, and killed some other fools in passing, and then attracted a madman who would do anything to achieve his goal. In the end, the person who should have been the 'prey' took away all the benefits."

"…"

Edward was stunned after hearing this. "What a mess! Can't you just say it directly?"

Will shook his head: "How I say it and how much I can say is not decided by me, but by fate."

Edward frowned and remained silent for a few seconds, then suddenly said, "...Do you know why you haven't been able to advance to Sequence 0 in all these years?"

"Why?"

"If you do everything according to the arrangement of fate, how can you become fate? What you need to do is to become the master of fate, not its slave."

Will curled his lips and said, "That's easy to say. If something goes wrong, it's not you who will be in trouble."

Having said that, there was clearly some hesitation in his eyes.

After a while, he reached into his arms and took out a small and exquisite jewelry box and handed it to Edward: "Aren't you here to thank me? Then help me run to Olawei and give this thing to the person waiting for you there. My current state is not suitable for holding it for a long time. Please help me with it."

Edward was startled, took the jewelry box and opened it. Inside was a dice showing the number 4: "Dice of Destiny?"

"Wait, didn't you say it was at Lilith's?"

Will nodded. "Yes, I also said that Lilith told me that there are two dice in this world, one male and one female. I thought she was talking nonsense until I actually saw two dice."

"...What do you mean?"

Will grinned, "I mean, last night... Lilith gave me this dice last night."

"!!!"

Edward could no longer remain calm and asked hurriedly, "Lilith showed up last night, where is she now?"

"I don't know. He gave me the dice and left."

"Why didn't you tell me then?"

Will frowned and said, "Why should I tell you? After all, Lilith and I are half friends - no, for the sake of the dice of fate, we are friends now. I don't even know your background, why should I tell you? You should know that Chick has been looking for Him!"

"I...did you tell her at that time that I...someone was looking for her?"

"Yes, He said 'Oh'."

"Then what?"

"Then He left."

"…"

"so..."

Edward suddenly realized, "When you said that your attention was focused on something else, were you referring to Lilith?"

"That's right."

"So... the one who took away all the benefits was also her?"

"That's right."

"You really don't know where she is now?"

"I really don't know. ￠1￠5!8?t+x`t*.-c?o￠m¨"

Will sighed, "At that time, fate told me not to ask Him where He was going or what He was going to do... so I didn't ask any more questions."

"…"

"You... really deserve to lose to Ourolius!"

The little snake immediately said in dissatisfaction: "At most, I just obey the arrangement of fate. At least I am better than that stupid snake who only listens to the real creator, right?"

After a while, Edward asked softly, "Is Lilith okay now?"

"Not very good."

Will started eating ice cream again. "I always thought that Lilith had used some method to survive the joint efforts of Chick and the others. But after meeting them this time, I realized that she was actually dead at that time."

Chapter 566: Pales and the Five Evil Spirits

"!!!"

Edward's heart skipped a beat. "Then she..."

"But He seems to have used some unknown method to not completely die, and even seized some of Chike's authority."

"She became an evil spirit too?"

"It's not an evil spirit... Judging from its state, it is actually much worse than an evil spirit. This makes sense. If he really became an evil spirit, how could he have hidden it from Chike's eyes at that time?"

Will spread his hands. "Anyway, it's some special state that I've never seen before. You don't need to ask more. I don't know much about it."

"Amon said that his brother joined forces to kill Lilith in order to follow the trend of his time. Is that true?"

"I don't know about this kind of thing."

Will looked at Edward in confusion, "Why do you want to seek revenge on them?"

"certainly."

"Amazing!"

Will gave a thumbs-up.

He ate a mouthful of ice cream and muttered, "Okay, to prevent Him from coming to me again, why don't you leave me a message or a token, so that He can decide whether to come to you or not."

"good."

Edward thought for a moment and said, "Then... tell her 'Edward has been looking for her'."

"Edward? I think I've heard Him mention this name before."

"Mentioned it? What did Lilith say when she mentioned it?"

He thought for a moment and said, "I just said that she is the most important person to me, and I didn't say anything else. Frankly speaking, this may not be useful to Lilith."

Edward was stunned: "Why?"

"Because Chick also knew the name 'Edward'. He had used similar words to set a trap and almost caught Lilith." Will thought for a moment and said, "There are also some place names or names like Hogwarts and Dumbledore. They were all said by Lilith when she was still innocent in her early days."

"…"

Edward clenched his fists.

"Oh, I know you are angry, but don't be angry yet, think about it carefully."

Edward was confused for a moment. According to Will, it was very likely that Lilith had revealed a lot of information in the early days of returning to the past, whether she was tricked or she spoke out on her own initiative.

He even suspected that it might not be useful even if he stood in front of Lilith with his real face.

That's right.

magic!

The Goddess of Night said that without being in the Harry Potter world, even she would not be able to learn and use magic. If she uses magic, it should be enough to prove her identity, right?

"Okay, I've been out for too long, I need to go back, you can help me send the things away as soon as possible. Of course, you can keep them for a few days if necessary, but I don't recommend too long."

Will walked a few steps and turned back to say, "As I said before, good luck is not unlimited. You either rely on accumulation or overdraft. Think carefully."

With that, he returned to the spice shop.

Soon his mother's questioning voice came from inside: "Will, did you sneak out to eat ice cream again?"

"No, Mom!"

"Then can you explain the corner of your mouth?"

"Slurp, nothing! Nothing! Ahhh, Dad, help me!"

Edward lowered his head again and looked at the dice in the jewelry box. After a moment, he closed it with a snap and disappeared.

...

Loen, a small villa in the northwest area of ​​Backlund.

Living here is an old man named Pamir who is nearly fifty years old. As the only heir to the villa, he has lived alone for many years and even his death was not discovered by anyone.

So Pales easily replaced the old man and continued to live the same way the old man had lived before.

Originally, He was the only one staying in the huge villa. Until he went to Sefirah Castle two days ago, five evil spirits appeared in the house—a giant, an elf, an ancient ascetic, a soldier, and a great-grandson who had been missing for many years.

These five people all have their own ideas:

The giant wants to resurrect and obtain a physical body, and then find a way to pass on the giant's bloodline.

The elves want to help the Elf Queen to resurrect and restore the elves' former glory.

The ascetic wanted to understand why the Creator of all things disappeared and wanted to find His trace.

The soldier wanted to visit his home.

As for the great-grandson, he goes wherever the elf wants to go, acting like a bootlicker.

Pales was really worried. Life is already difficult enough for an old man like me, why do they have to send these ancestors to me to take care of - real ancestors!

The giant, the elf and the ascetic were all at least a thousand years older than Pales!

It's really a downgrade!

However, the soldier Longzel's idea was the easiest to implement among the five people. After all, they just wanted to go home and take a look, and they didn't plan to do anything. So Pales, staggering on his crutches, led the five of them to No. 18, De La Haile Street.