A white hand pierced through Li Li's chest, pinching a beating heart. Lilith appeared behind her out of thin air and said with a smile: "Finally caught you."
"When did you ..."
"The first time I used a mirror double."
"Then why should I..."
"Of course I knew that Amanesis didn't come in, but I just needed her to help keep some things secret at the beginning."
Lilith said with a smile, "For example, if you want to merge with me, become one with me, and want to devour my soul, I also want to use my soul to temporarily bind you."
"Do you think I came to the mirror world to try to become the beginning in the mirror like Chick? In fact..."
A golden lamp that looked like a shrunken kettle appeared in Lilith's hand. She said calmly, "Eternal Lamp Goddess, my second wish is to extract a part of her original characteristics and give it to that arm bone."
As she rubbed it gently, the wick of the golden kettle burned silently, and the light it emitted was like a sticky stream, spraying upwards, forming a blurry and distorted pale golden figure.
"not enough."
The pale golden figure said calmly, "Your request cannot be satisfied with just one wish. After all, He is the original in the mirror."
Having said that, His tone was full of disdain.
Lilith said, "Are you seeking revenge for the last time when I called you out but you didn't make a wish?"
"No, I'm just telling the truth."
The original in the mirror laughed: "I understand, I finally understand. It turns out that you want to use this method to complete the resurrection, but the current situation seems to be beyond your expectations. You have done so much for resurrection, but in order to achieve the last step, you have to die first. I wonder if your method can bring you back to life after you really die?"
"…"
Lilith's fingers that were pinching her heart suddenly tightened, causing "Li Li" to scream. After a moment, she spoke again: "Eternal Lamp God, my second and third wishes are..."
Before she could finish, her other hand grasped the magic lamp, "Let me do it, Lilith. 2. The book is the content of the king's book."
Lilith's body trembled, and she turned her head to look over, "Edward... why are you back?"
Edward flicked her forehead and said, "Little girl, don't think that just because you've lived thousands of years longer than me, you're more powerful than me. You kicked me out without saying a word. I went through so much trouble to come in here to protect you, not to let you protect me."
"In terms of fighting ability, I can't compare to you, but when it comes to not fearing death, who else can compare to me!"
Lilith said hurriedly, "No, no, the doorway does not have the property of resurrection from the dead, I will not necessarily die."
Edward put his palm on her head. "Don't underestimate me, Lilith. Who said I'm just a passerby? Believe me, okay?"
He squeezed the wishing lamp hard and said, "Genius, help me realize Lilith's wish just now, no matter how many wishes you want to count as."
The golden figure shook violently. He looked at Edward steadily and suddenly became furious: "You are mysterious!"
"Who do you care who I am? I just fulfilled my wish."
"No! I won't, and I can't..."
"Do you believe that I will throw you into Sefirah Castle and make you never see the light of day? Make you never be able to return to the starry sky?!"
"you!"
"Help me realize my wish."
"…"
The golden figure became increasingly furious;
Chapter 630 Bernadette Meets Lilith
Bang!
The next second, Edward's body collapsed and turned into countless star worms.
Lilith panicked and tried to pull him, but her fingers only touched countless dissipated starlight: "Edward!"
"Lilith, I...will come back...to find you..."
As his body completely turned into starlight, a door leading to the outside world was left in the original place. At this time, words quickly popped up on the mirror of Arrodes: "Go quickly, Lord Lilith, He will soon break free from the shackles of your soul. · Qi\ Sheng_ Xiao. Say + 徃- + Geng+ Xin ~ The most, Kuai!"
"quick!"
"Run for your life!"
Lilith picked up Arrodes and stepped back into the light gate.
"Lilith!! Come back here!!!"
As soon as the endless anger erupted, it was blocked in the mirror world by the closed door.
Lilith felt a moment of trance before she returned to the real room.
"Mother!"
Christine exclaimed in surprise, "Mom, you're back."
"Well, little Christine."
Lilith sighed and murmured, "I'm back."
"Where is Mr. Edward? He, he said he went to look for you."
"Edward...he will come to see me soon."
Of course.
...
The second death was actually not much different from the first.
After death, he came to the bright galaxy again. The galaxy reflected the bright starlight. Each beam of starlight was like a screen playing pictures, which were different memory fragments of different people.
As long as he enters the memory of any one of them, he will be resurrected through the other person's memory, but he will be affected by some of the other person's inherent impressions of himself when he is resurrected.
Just like the last time when he was resurrected using Bernadette's memory, Edward not only became a child, but was also repeatedly influenced by his childishness and behaved irrationally.
If possible, he didn't want to be resurrected as a child again this time.
Just as he thought of this, Edward suddenly remembered something: after being promoted to Sequence 2, because he did not have enough anchor points, his humanity was lost very quickly, and even his "childishness" that was full of humanity could not stop the loss of humanity.
Therefore, the key to this resurrection is actually more about how to maintain more humanity.
But after Edward looked through a circle of memories that could be resurrected, he found that this problem was unsolvable. This was a kind of "underlying logic" of the mysterious world: the higher the sequence, the less humanity there was, so the gods needed believers to help them maintain their humanity and stay stable.
Instead of thinking about how to maintain more humanity, it is better to think about how to seize the time to develop believers after resurrection. With believers as an anchor, everything will be solved.
Haha, so I'm going to develop missionary work in the next period of time, right?
What to teach?
Holy Fire Meow Meow Cult?
...
The future time, 1350.
Trier, the capital of Intis.
Bernadette stood on this familiar yet unfamiliar street. Not far away was the house where she had lived since she was a child. Now it had become a memorial hall for Emperor Roselle. She felt as if everything was just yesterday.
She shifted her gaze and followed the path she had walked countless times, came to Emerald Street, and then walked all the way to Villa No. 28.
This place has been empty for a long, long time.
When my father was stabbed in the White Maple Palace, the Intis Empire collapsed. The supporters, with Emperor Roselle as the core, were soon punished one by one. Most of them were purged, and a few fled Trier early.
The Sparrow family, who were close friends of the emperor but had not held any official position for many years, were not spared either. The villa has been empty ever since and no one has lived in it since then.
Bernadette arrived in front of the villa, pushed open the slightly rotten gate, and walked into the weed-covered garden. With every step she took, past memories flashed through her mind, mostly laughter, but more of them were confusion about Mr. Sparrow's sudden disappearance.
The swing that I built specifically for myself at that time had long been corroded by time, leaving only two rusty iron chains, one long and one short, hanging on the branches, swaying in the breeze and making tinkling sounds.
She stood in front of the chain for a moment, then turned and walked towards the door of the villa - that was where she first met Lilith.
With a creaking sound,
The door was opened, and a girl in a shirt and jeans appeared at the door with a smile on her face. She waved her hand:
"Ah, here you are, little Bernadette."
She walked forward with brisk steps: "I thought you would go to the hotel in Backlund."
Bernadette pursed her lips and said, "Long time no see, Lilith...sister."
"Ha ha ha ha."
Lilith laughed so hard that she fell backwards. "You are so strange."
"After all, we haven't seen each other for over a hundred years. Besides, I've grown up."
"Ah? So long?"
Lilith waved her hand gently, and the overgrown garden changed rapidly. In a blink of an eye, it became what it once was. Lilith walked to the swing and sat down, swaying as she said, "Want to join us? You used to fight with me for it back then."
"…"
Bernadette was silent for a moment, "I've lost the habit of sitting on the swing."
"Well, that's a shame."
Lilith said cheerfully, "As an extraordinary being with a long life, keeping a young heart is the best way to maintain humanity."
Bernadette couldn't help but say, "You... have completely usurped the descendants of the original vampire ancestor as an anchor to maintain your humanity, right?"
"Ahem, little Christine has helped me gain a few followers."
Lilith covered her mouth and coughed a few times, "Tell me, what do you want from me?"
"Where's Mr. Sparrow?"
"As I said, he's in a safe place."
"Mr. Sparrow, that's Edward, right?"
Lilith nodded: "You should have known this a long time ago, right?"
"…"
Bernadette hesitated again and again: "But I still don't quite understand why you and him... have become like this."
"oh?"
Lilith held her chin in her hand, "Don't you have any guesses at all?"
"I have speculated that when my father was assassinated, you were also retaliated against, which caused Mr. Sparrow to lose his memory and you were cursed to become a cat. _k!a!n`s,h_u+a?pp?.¨n`e?t?"
Bernadette recounted her conjectures, "But there are still many things that don't match."
"so what?"
She shook her head. "I don't know."
Lilith laughed, "What a dishonest child! You've already guessed it, right?"
Bernadette: "…"
"That's right."
Lilith smiled. "The Sparrow and I you first knew were the ones who traveled back in time from the future. So, when you first found us, we didn't lose our memories and forget about you. We really didn't know you."
Bernadette's pupils shrank.
Indeed, as Lilith said, she did have guesses in this regard, but she always felt it was too far-fetched. As a secret peeper who used knowledge as a channel for advancement, Bernadette claimed to have mastered more and deeper mysterious knowledge than most people in the world, but she had really never heard of any extraordinary ability to travel through time.
Because once you are able to travel through time, it will trigger a series of events - such as the most classic time paradox.
"so..."
Bernadette said softly, "Did you know from the beginning that Dad would be assassinated and that the Intis Empire would collapse with his death?"
"Yes."
"…"
She clenched her fists tightly, forcing herself not to ask, "Why don't you stop this?" That would create a paradox between the past and the future, and she knew without thinking that an unknown disaster would occur.
After a long silence, she asked softly, "Is Dad really dead?"
Lilith nodded slightly: "Dead."
"…"
"But... he's not dead yet."
Lilith laughed.
There are always some interesting coincidences in this world. "Mr. Didn't Live Fully" became "Mr. Didn't Die Fully" in the future, but "Mr. Didn't Die Fully" became "Didn't Live Fully".
She jumped off the swing lightly, walked to Bernadette, tiptoed slightly, and touched her head: "Don't worry, little Bernadette, wait a little longer, let me carry the whole game!"
...
Backlund. -Excellent product, small tax, 蛧? ,庚_欣+蕞^哙,
After obtaining the marionette that the Queen had sacrificed to him, Klein felt that he had never fought such a rich battle in his life. Three marionettes, two Sequence 5, and one Sequence 4.
With these three puppets alone, Klein felt that he could escape unscathed from most demigods. Of course, as a newly-appointed puppet master, he could only control one puppet, so he chose the one with Sequence 4 first—that was the Major General Deputy Director of MI9, Chonas Kilger.
A person who holds a decisive position in the Loen military was unexpectedly made into a secret doll and given to him without any notice. According to Lilith, this person was closely involved in the smog incident and was a very evil person. Therefore, Klein used him as a secret doll without any guilt. Instead, he could use his identity and complex interpersonal relationships to digest the potion faster.
As for the other two secret dolls, one was the Hell Admiral Ludwell who was once famous on the sea, and the other was a strange Extraordinary who was in his thirties and had never been seen before - they were temporarily stored in a leather bag given to him by Lilith.
"I don't know how Edward did it. He turned people into puppets and gave them to me to control them. It makes him seem like he is also a puppet master."
The puppet controlled by the puppet master is not a simple corpse. Instead, when the target is still alive, the spirit worm is injected through the spirit thread to control the target's spiritual body, astral body, mental body and etheric body, and then control the target's physical body.
Although the other party will be completely dead after the secret doll transformation is completed, it does not mean that a secret doll can be created using the corpse.
But there is no point in considering these things. The most important thing is to digest the potion and get the recipe of the weird wizard.
"call--"
Standing in the square in front of Saint Samuel's Church, Klein, who had changed his appearance with the Faceless Man's ability, looked at the huge Holy Light of Night and took a long breath. Lilith's words came back to his mind again: "You don't know yet? You... Klein Moretti, have been the favored follower of the Goddess of Night from the beginning to the end."
But how come I didn't know at all that I was a follower of the Goddess of Night?
I have only been in the Nighthawks team in Tingen for a few months, and the highest-ranking "officer" I have ever met was His Excellency the Sword of the Goddess, so when and why did I become a follower of the Goddess?
Chapter 631 Klein Takes the Notebook
In order to prevent Lilith from fooling him, Klein used the paper crane to ask the mercury snake again, but the other party's answer was obviously a cover-up: "I didn't tell you that!"
As if trying to shirk responsibility.
Therefore, Klein basically believed that he was the one who was favored by the night. After hesitating for four or five days and doing divination many times in succession above the gray fog, he finally made a decision:
Go to church and take a look.
Following the believers into the tall and magnificent church, Klein chose a seat at the back of the exam out of caution so that he could exchange with the secret doll left outside at any time.
A man who looked to be about forty years old and wearing a double-breasted black clergy robe was holding the doctrine and explaining it gently and patiently to the believers. He was Elektra, the bishop of St. Samuel's Church.
After nearly two hours of speeches, the believers uniformly drew a holy light of night on their chests and silently chanted devoutly: "Praise our Lord", and then started the donation process. Of course, this process is not mandatory.
The main target is the noble believers, who would easily stuff dozens or hundreds of gold pounds into the donation box. One person donated more than dozens or hundreds of poor believers.
Klein originally intended to donate a pound or two, but when he saw the people in front of him stuffing money into the donation box as if it were waste paper, it would be too conspicuous for him to take out a few pounds at this time.
So he made up his mind, gritted his teeth, and took out ten gold pounds with a denomination of 10 pounds.
"gentlemen,"
Bishop Elektra looked up at Klein and immediately said, "You..."
Klein hurriedly squeezed the banknotes and stuffed them into the box. He then forced a smile and said, "Praise the goddess!"
The bishop quickly responded: "Praise our Lord."
After a half-second pause, he whispered again, "Sir, the Archbishop said that if you come, you can go directly to the back of the church to find him."
"ah?"
Klein was stunned and looked at the donation box: Can I get the money back?
Elektra looked at Klein and sighed in her heart: This gentleman really values money as much as the archbishop said!
In the end, Klein certainly didn't have the nerve to ask for the donated money back, so he followed a priest who was leading the way and met Archbishop Anthony in a quiet room behind the church.
"Hello."
He had a polite smile on his calm and gentle face. "Should I call you German Sparrow, Sherlock Moriarty, or Klein Moretti?"
"…"
For a moment, Klein felt that he had failed as the Faceless Man. He was stripped naked as soon as they met. Fortunately, the other party did not say "Zhou Mingrui" or even "The Fool".
Otherwise, Klein would be scared to death.
"You...just call me Klein."
"good."
Anthony nodded: "Then, can I still regard you as a night watchman of the church?"
"...certainly."
As soon as Klein finished speaking, he quickly added, "Your Excellency the Archbishop, regarding my 'resurrection', actually..."
"Oh, I am not meeting you today to accuse you of anything. As a favored one of my Lord, you do not need to explain to me."
This sentence immediately made Klein's heart pound: It's confirmed! I am really the one favored by the Goddess of Night!
"Okay, please follow me. I'll take you behind Chanis Gate to get what you want."
What do I want?
Are you referring to the Antigonus family notes?
According to my original plan, I wanted to disguise myself as a wealthy man, gradually build closer ties with the church, and finally find a chance to use a secret doll to steal the notebook from the church's basement.
Now, I don't have to do anything and it's just given to me for free?
This is undoubtedly a great thing.
But Klein felt as if he was trapped in a fog, with too many questions that he couldn't answer: For example, why did the Goddess of Night take such good care of him? For example, why did Lilith know that I was a Blessed One? Did Edward tell her?
Also, why did the Goddess of Night know that I needed the Antigonus family notes? Could it be that She has been watching me all along?
A god would stare at a Sequence 5?
Klein could think of only one reason, and that was the mysterious gray fog.
The two of them walked into the stairs leading to the underground one after the other, and walked forward along the dim and quiet corridor. It was pitch black in front of them, and it was also pitch black behind them. Klein couldn't help but feel a little nervous.
He exhaled silently, trying to keep his mind as calm as possible.
Soon, they came to a pair of iron-black double doors with seven holy emblems engraved on them. It seemed that nothing could shake it.
Anthony turned his body, took two steps sideways, knocked on the door of the guard room, and opened the Chanis door in the presence of the night watchman on duty.
The deep darkness inside suddenly surged up. Even though there were silver candles carved with patterns burning quietly inside, it was unable to dispel this feeling. Instead, the faint blue flame deepened the taste of deathly silence.
In just a moment, Klein felt as if invisible things were scraping across his skin in the darkness, penetrating deep into his body, making him feel a chill.
"Next, you will need to continue forward on your own. Come back as soon as you get the things."
Klein was stunned and looked at him in confusion: "But I don't know where the things are."
"It's on the second floor. You'll see it when you get there."
Although he was confused, he could only do as he was told. He picked up the lantern beside him and lit it up. Then he walked silently into the door that contained countless precious and powerful sealed objects.
As he walked deeper, the dark chill became more and more obvious. He endured the discomfort all over his body and came to the second floor, following the unsettling atmosphere emanating from the stone doors on both sides.
Here, strange walls are made of steel, bricks, soil and silver, separating one area after another. Some places are open, while some rooms are closed, and each has a sealed object.
Klein looked at his nose and his heart, and continued to go deeper without looking around. After passing through several closed places, he was suddenly inspired. He felt that something on the right was calling him, and it made a thumping sound like a heart expanding and contracting!
He immediately changed direction, following the call from the void, and got closer.
Two or three minutes later, Klein came to a room with a half-open stone door. It was dark inside, without any light.
As the lantern shone, an empty bookshelf made of white bones came into his sight, on which lay an ancient notebook with a hard, black cover.
The Antigonus family notebook!