Red Rose Manor, inside the solarium.
Edessak Augustus stood by the floor-to-ceiling window, his face gloomy as he looked at the indifferent Trissy. His voice was like a volcano that was about to erupt.
"Why did you run away again?"
Trissy looked past him and out the window. She chuckled and instead of answering, she asked,
She chuckled and asked instead of answering, "Did you see the meteor shower just now? Did you feel the tremors of the earth? "
Behind her, the porcelain and other objects in the museum cabinet had already fallen onto the thick, soft carpet, and the old butler, Finkel, was standing beside her.
"This isn't too rare," Edessak replied in a deep voice.
Trissy raised her eyebrows slightly.
"You're very slow.
"Then I'll be honest with you. I'm a Demoness!"
Prince Edessak's expression didn't change in the slightest.
He turned to the old butler and said, "Guard the door and don't let anyone in."
"Yes, Your Highness." Finkel glanced coldly at Trissy, turned around, and walked out of the solarium.
Hearing the sound of the door closing, Edessak slowly exhaled.
"Trissy Cheek, heh, you prefer to be called Trissy.
"I know you're a Demoness, and the person who helped you buy the Beyonder ingredients didn't succeed. What you obtained was all provided by me!
"I don't mind if my consort is a Witch or a Demoness. I've even seen your wanted poster!"
Trissy was taken aback at first, but then she revealed a teasing smile.
"You know a lot …
"Then do you know that I was once a man, and my real name is Trissy?"
"… What?" Edessak's eyes widened as he tilted his head slightly, as if he couldn't believe what he had heard.
Upon seeing this, Trissy burst out laughing. She laughed so hard that she rocked back and forth like a lunatic.
"Haha, you didn't hear wrong. I was once a man! I was once like you, longer and thicker than you down there! But the Witch potion forcefully changed my gender!
"Isn't it disgusting? Do you have goosebumps all over your body? "
She vented out the words that had been bottled up for a long time and took two steps forward.
Edessak instinctively retreated, his throat involuntarily moving up and down.
"No, it's not like that … You're a real woman … There's nothing wrong with you … I can confirm this!" He first muttered to himself, then raised his voice and said, "From the moment I knew you, you were a real woman. I don't want to know what you were like in the past! I can pretend that nothing like this has happened! What I like and love is the current you! "
Trissy was taken aback. She raised her hand to wipe away the tears from her laughter.
"You are a poor man.
"Don't you understand? Our meeting wasn't a coincidence. Even if you like … "
She paused and continued, "Even the fact that you fell in love with me was arranged by someone else. Don't you think that everything happened too fast? I believe in love at first sight, but I don't believe it has such a magical power. You're acting like the main character in a third-rate romance novel. Just because you met me once, you fell in love with me, a stranger, and forgot the target you used to like. This is too crazy! "
Prince Edessak's eyes stared straight ahead and his mouth opened, but he didn't say a word.
His body suddenly shook, as if he had finally awakened from a long dream.
"Y-you're indeed my type … But my reaction is really, really, too exaggerated …"
The corners of Trissy's mouth curled up as she tilted her head and sneered.
"Poor man, even something like liking has been arranged by someone else, like a puppet on strings.
"Don't you understand? You're an expendable target, and I'm not only a hostage needed for the cooperation between the royal family and the Demoness Sect, but also a disguise necessary for deception.
"I'm carrying the important items of the Demoness Sect, and under your strict supervision, I can be destroyed at any time and lose the treasures. This is the sincerity of our cooperation. Once the matter is exposed to the three Churches or other factions in the military, the development of the matter will be very simple. Prince Edessak was greedy for beauty and secretly raised a Demoness. Knowing that his sins were grave, he committed suicide with a gun. Then, all the problems will be covered up."
"No!" Edessak blurted out.
Then, he asked with a distorted face,
"What are they cooperating with the Demoness Sect for?"
"How could a hostage who can be abandoned at any time know?" Trissy laughed self-deprecatingly. "That's all the reason I want to escape."
She lowered her head and laughed softly, her body trembling slightly.
After a few seconds, she looked up again and curled the corners of her mouth.
"What do you want to do with me? Strip me naked and throw me on the bed? No, you should already have a psychological barrier. Actually, I don't mind giving you some warmth now. It's not embarrassing for two poor people to comfort each other. "
Prince Edessak looked at Trissy in silence for nearly a minute with a gloomy face.
Suddenly, he closed his eyes and pointed to the other side.
"You can leave.
"Leave through that door."
Trissy raised her eyebrows in surprise.
"You're letting me go?"
"Yes." Edessak turned to look out the window and slowly replied, "I'll stop Finkel. As for whether or not you can escape the other pursuers, it'll depend on your own strength and luck."
Trissy's eyes were confused for a few seconds before she quickly ran to the secret door.
Before leaving, she couldn't help but look back.
"What about you?"
Edessak didn't turn his head as he continued staring out the floor-to-ceiling window, as if he was looking for a shadow of the past.
He smiled and said, "Of course.
"Me? Let me live in this beautiful story and welcome its final ending, be it good or bad. "
Trissy took a deep breath and didn't stay any longer as she entered the secret door.
…
Saint Samuel Cathedral, in a quiet room.
One of the thirteen archbishops of the Church of the Evernight Goddess, the person in charge of the Baekeland diocese, Saint Anthony Stevenson, received an urgent telegram from Earl Hall's residence.
This beardless, deep-eyed elder had an extremely clean appearance. Even though he was wearing a black and red archbishop robe, he didn't give off a dark feeling.
However, anyone who faced him would tremble from the bottom of their hearts, as if their spirituality was ruled by fear, or they would face an unknown existence watching them from the depths of the darkness.
Trissy Cheek … The Primordial Demoness … Saint Anthony patted the paper and immediately stood up.
The surrounding light suddenly disappeared, as if it was swallowed by the darkness in the room.
Inside the cathedral, all the praying believers instantly felt the descent of night.
Everything quickly returned to normal, and Saint Anthony appeared in front of the Chanis Door in the cathedral's basement.
The person leading the team today was Spirit Guide Daly Simone.
Without waiting for her to ask, Archbishop Saint Anthony instructed in a deep voice, "Be prepared.
Enter the process. I'm going to awaken a Sealed Artifact. "
He wanted to make use of 0-17.
He wanted to use that terrifying Sealed Artifact to confirm and deal with matters related to Trissy Cheek.
And this was the only Grade 0 Sealed Artifact that was preserved outside the Holy Cathedral. Only two members of the Church's upper echelons knew that it was in the Baekeland diocese.
"Yes, Your Grace." Daly was taken aback for a second before she immediately replied.
While waiting, Saint Anthony closed his eyes, and a portion of Sealed Artifact 0-17's information naturally surfaced in his mind.
"Number: 17.
"Name: XXXXX
"Danger Grade: 0. Extremely dangerous. Of the highest importance. Of the highest confidentiality. Not to inquire, not to divulge, not to describe, not to pry.
"Confidentiality Grade: Pope, Team A researchers, and the archbishop in charge of the Baekeland diocese (Note: When the archbishop is transferred out of the Baekeland diocese, he needs to use Sealed Artifact 1-29 to erase the relevant memories).
"Sealing method: Complete the seal through the combination of '1-29' and '1-80'."
"Description: This isn't an item.
"This is a living angel.
"'She' has a beautiful appearance, and her hair and eyes are black. She's suspected to be a young woman, but her actual age is impossible to estimate.
"… 'She' doesn't have the wings recorded in the books. Just from her appearance, she's not very different from an ordinary person.
"… 'She' doesn't have the ability to think, and has lost all sentience.
"… Any person or item that approaches' Her 'will completely disappear … Through divination and other means, it can be confirmed that they are still alive and truly exist. However, no one has been able to find them. So far, 1,825 methods have been attempted, but all have failed.
"… 0-17's range of influence will expand and contract irregularly. So far, it has caused more than 70 researchers to disappear."
…
"Warning, 'She' cannot be used!"
"Appendix 1: This Sealed Artifact first appeared in the Pale Era of the Fourth Epoch. Exact year, missing. Exact date, missing. Exact location, missing.
"Appendix 2: According to the data, 'She' has been awakened five times."
…
By transmitting the information and searching for the fake Ince Zangwill, Klein, with the help of divination, overcame the interference of the Master Key and headed straight for the exit indicated in the revelation.
He knew very well that with a carpet search, the corpse in the uninhabited room would quickly be discovered. Therefore, he had to make every second count and rush to the exit as soon as possible.
The powers of a Faceless need to be paired with a mystical item that can destroy corpses … It didn't take long for Klein, who had gained true knowledge through practice, to pass through one checkpoint after another and arrive at the exit indicated by the divination.
But what surprised him was that there were no guards here. There was only a heavy stone door that stood there alone.
What's going on? Why isn't there anyone guarding the exit? Was my divination misguided, or are the guards outside? Amidst his thoughts, Klein found a corner and took off his armor, returning to his light and agile state.
Following that, he came in front of the stone door and felt his way to the left corner of the wall.
After cautiously confirming it with a gold coin, Klein took out the ancient brass key, pressed it against the wall, and twisted it gently.
A ripple appeared and shook slightly. Klein silently passed through the wall and didn't use the main door!
The first thing he saw was the natural light that shone down from the dome. This meant that this was indeed the exit.
Klein cautiously didn't move as he quickly adapted to the light. He saw neat but mottled gray stone slabs beneath his feet, and there were thick pillars in front of him.
This was a large hall, and in the middle, there were four hooded figures kneeling around what appeared to be an altar.
Following that, a gentle but slow female voice entered Klein's ears.
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