"He's already dead …"
Edwards turned his head and looked at Bernadette's Invisible Servant with his light blue eyes. His gaze was no longer cold and blank. It shimmered with a strange glint that was filled with disbelief.
Only at this moment did he realize that he had long died and "revived." He was no different from William, Porley, and Grimm, who needed to be wary of him.
This change only lasted for two seconds before Edwards's face suddenly contorted. His already pale skin rapidly dimmed as it tore apart inch by inch.
Under his skin, the bright red flesh began to rot at a visible speed, dripping with a pungent, pale yellow liquid.
With a whoosh, Edwards raised the iron-black ax in his hand.
Pfft!
He cleaved the ax down on his head, as though he was trying to prevent any negative thoughts from appearing in his mind.
The ax was heavy and sharp, directly splitting open Edwards's skull and cleaving down to his glabella.
Drip. Drip. Drops of milky-white brain juice flowed down the ax's edge and slid down Edwards's twisted and torn face, as though milk had been poured onto a bright red strawberry.
"Don't, don't come near me …" After striking himself in the head, Edwards said in a low and hoarse voice to Bernadette's Invisible Servant.
As soon as he finished speaking, his expression became stiff again, and his eyes gradually became wooden. He turned around and walked towards the forest he came from, one step at a time.
His thin and shriveled body was slightly bent, as though he was hunched over.
Bernadette had probed him with her question because she had too many doubts and worries regarding entering the mausoleum. All she could do was indirectly point out the problem with Edwards and see if she could find more clues from his answer. To her surprise, this knight who was famous in the Northern Continent during the Rosell era had such an intense and strange reaction.
After two seconds of silence, Bernadette made the Invisible Servant say to Edwards's back, "Your descendants are doing well.
"Your descendants are doing well and have achieved a certain level of success."
With his back facing the mausoleum, Edwards stopped for a moment before continuing forward. He passed through the invisible boundary and disappeared into the forest.
His target seemed to be the stone pillar cemetery where the dead could obtain "new life."
At the same time, Bernadette looked up at the sky.
The faint blackness that permeated the area had clearly dissipated, but there was an indescribable feeling. The entire primitive island had undergone a subtle, indescribable change.
Suddenly, Bernadette, who was hiding at the edge of the invisible boundary, touched her back.
She felt something heavy there, as though there was something extra.
When her left palm touched the target, Bernadette realized that there was an additional strand of hair.
At this moment, she was wearing an Intis-style blouse with a large lace flower on the collar. She was wearing an indigo patterned captain's suit, beige trousers, knee-high boots, and a triangular hat with a feather on it. She was dressed like the leader of a pirate ship.
In this image, her chestnut-colored hair was originally tied into a bun and draped over her back. But now, although her hairstyle did not change, her hair had instantly grown longer, reaching her waist.
Right on the heels of that, Bernadette lowered her head and looked at her right palm. She saw that her fingernails were extending out at the same time.
This Queen Mystic wasn't surprised or flustered. Following her instincts as a Clairvoyant and the experience she had accumulated over a long period of time, she took a few steps forward and passed through the invisible boundary. She completely left the primitive forest and entered the empty area where the Black Emperor's mausoleum was.
During this process, Bernadette even made the Invisible Servant return to the spirit world.
Three to four seconds later, she felt the ground begin to shake slightly. The mausoleum also began to tremble.
Subconsciously, Bernadette turned her head to look at the primitive forest.
Her gaze froze for a moment as she looked at it.
The dark green trees that were nearly black waved their branches and pulled out their roots one after another. Then, like humans, they approached Bernadette.
The entire primeval forest had come to life!
Looking at the densely packed trees that seemed to blot out the sky, Bernadette felt like the end of the World had arrived. Every place would be covered by the forest.
The gigantic red dragon with flames flowing through its skin rapidly flew into the sky. The eight-legged demonic wolf began to run between the trees … All the Beyonder and mutated creatures on the island became restless as they headed towards the mausoleum.
Although she was a Clairvoyant, Bernadette never expected that a simple question that she hadn't directly pointed out would bring about such an anomaly. It was as though it was a key that opened the door to the abyss.
Above the gray fog, Klein saw more. Combined with his knowledge of mysticism, he had a guess.
Edwards's situation is somewhat different from William and Grimm's. It's like a loophole in the order of this primitive island, or rather, a shadow …
When he realized that he was long dead, this loophole, this shadow, was discovered by the order, and it began to be "mended."
And the "mending" brought about an increase in the order, causing the entire island to undergo an anomaly.
I can sense that there's a certain level of the Black Emperor's power in here. It was it that affected Edwards, allowing him to maintain a portion of his will after being "reborn." And where did the original order of the primitive island come from?
"Eh …"
As Klein's thoughts raced, he suddenly sensed that Bernadette had undergone a certain anomaly.
Badump, badump, badump. Bernadette could vaguely hear her heartbeat.
The rhythm of her heartbeat was rather chaotic, as though it was a mixture of two sounds.
Two … Bernadette's heart stirred as she calmly focused her attention back on herself.
In the next second, she confirmed that the heartbeat she heard came from two sources.
One came from her heart, and the other came from her abdomen.
It was as though there was an additional heart in her abdomen, expanding and contracting at an unhurried pace.
Furthermore, this "heart" was growing bit by bit!
Without needing to use her Mystery Prying powers to look at her abdomen, Bernadette directly sensed that there was a fetus in her abdomen.
"It" grew from the size of a raisin to the size of a normal human palm, and it was still growing. It didn't seem like it would take long for it to mature, tear open its mother's abdomen, and crawl out while dripping with blood.
Unknowingly, Bernadette had become pregnant with a fetus. And her spirituality and the Sealed Artifact on her failed to detect it ahead of time and stop it, as though it was powerless to deal with such an influence.
Earth Mother … Primordial Moon … Mother Tree of Desire … Three divine names flashed across Bernadette's mind.
According to what she knew, there weren't many mysteries that could cause such an anomaly. Most of them came from domains related to the Earth and Moon pathways.
The Planter pathway's Sequence 0 was called Mother. The Primordial Moon could allow stones to obtain the ability to reproduce, and the Mother Tree of Desire was suspected to have grasped a portion of the High-Sequence Beyonder characteristics of the Moon pathway.
Bernadette wasn't in a hurry to deal with the fetus in her stomach. She first made her eyes turn deep once again, using her clairvoyant powers to pry into her best choice.
This time, she only took a second to obtain the corresponding prophecy:
"The hope of survival lies in the mausoleum."
Without any hesitation, Bernadette extended her right hand and quickly outlined words that were suffused with starlight in midair.
These words, which were similar to the words on the Blasphemy Slate, quickly intertwined into a strange symbol, opening a "secret door" that led deep into the spirit world.
Following that, the "secret door" opened, and a gust of wind blew out, transforming into a man whose upper body was human and lower body was covered in white cloth.
"Sage Frontlet," Bernadette instructed with a calm tone and a dignified voice.
The man respectfully responded and took out an ornament from the white cloth wrapped around his body.
At the core of the accessory was a vertical eye embedded with a "diamond." It shimmered with a pure light, giving off an abnormally holy and intelligent feeling. However, it also appeared rather cold and devoid of warmth.
Bernadette took the accessory and "embedded" it in the middle of her forehead.
This was a Grade 0 Sealed Artifact. Bernadette usually didn't carry it with her because the negative effects were too severe.
However, at this moment, the Sage Frontlet had an ability that was rather important to Bernadette. She was willing to bear the consequences of not being able to use any evil magic, as well as the Beyonder characteristic gradually affecting her body and fusing with it bit by bit.
If she couldn't remove the Sage Frontlet in a short period of time, it would be equivalent to someone splashing a Sequence 2 potion on her. When the time came, she would either be lucky and successfully advance to become a Sage, or she would lose control and turn into a monster. And without the supplementary ingredients and the corresponding ritual, the chances of the former were almost negligible.
After the diamond vertical eye appeared on her forehead, Bernadette's body began to turn incorporeal, disintegrating into a vast amount of knowledge.
In an instant, she became a pure creature of information.
The fetus in her womb didn't obtain such a state as it fell to the ground with a thud.
"It" was about half the size of a normal baby, and it had already grown facial features and limbs. Its skin was wrinkled, and it was flowing with sticky pus.
As "It" left its mother's body, "It" that hadn't completely taken form gradually degenerated and quickly melted into the air.
The baby was clearly indignant as it tried its best to open its eyes that were sealed by the mucus. It opened its mouth with sharp fangs and made a final struggle.
At this moment, Klein, who was above the gray fog, tapped the edge of the long mottled table with his finger.
Pa.
He magnified the probability of the baby's struggle failing.
The baby finally couldn't maintain itself and completely dissipated in front of the approaching forest.
At the same time, the torrent of information that Bernadette had transformed into passed through the heavy stone door and entered the Black Emperor mausoleum, reforming her original body.
During this process, she seemed to see a black shadow.
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