At that time, Adanis already had some of the elegance she had now. She was smart, elegant, cold, proud, and stubborn.
Moreover, Adanis had already made some achievements in the field of magic arrays.
When the Wise Ruler and Adanis first met, they talked about magic arrays. At the time, although Adanis' understanding of magic arrays was still immature, her talent was astonishing. The Wise Ruler estimated that it wouldn't take long for Adanis to surpass him in terms of magic arrays and reach a new height.
The wise man loved talent but was not jealous of it because he was very open-minded. He was very clear that everyone had their own talents and strengths, and this kind of innate spirituality was very difficult to be envied.
Because of this, the Wise Ruler had a good impression of Adanis during their first meeting.
However, the second time they met, the Wise Ruler and Adanis were already at each other's throats.
"Have we reached the point of confrontation? Did she do something? "Angor asked.
The Wise Ruler sighed. "You know that she called herself the 'Mirror Demon'. Aren't you curious about why she did that?"
"To steal the warden's treasure?" Angor considered.
According to the records they found in the underground church, this group of believers who called themselves the Mirror Devil were after Warden Iname's treasure.
However, the records they found didn't mention what kind of treasure it was.
The Wise Ruler nodded. "That's right."
Angor wasn't sure if the Wise Ruler could figure out the answer. Since Angor could find the church where the Mirror Demon's followers lived, it shouldn't be hard for them to find the records.
"Nether City fell overnight, but that's just an exaggeration. How could it only last for one night? The city had powerful fighters, magic arrays, and all kinds of alchemy items. It didn't just last for one or two days.
"I don't know how long it lasted. I was busy dealing with all kinds of matters in the dark underground, so I didn't have time to calculate the time.
But I do remember that the last living area in the underground sewers was breached three years after the fall of Nether City.
"From the upheaval in Nether City to its fall to the point where all the residential areas were destroyed, it might have lasted for five years."
A few years later, the Wise Sovereign finally had the time to go to the Clear Sky Poetry Room and meet Adanis for the first time.
At the time, the Wise Sovereign didn't know what Adanis had done. He just felt that she was a very intelligent person.
But later on, when the Wise Overlord was dealing with the aftermath of the sewers, he discovered that Warden Franklin's residence had been destroyed.
After all, even if Nether City had fallen, nothing had happened to the Stairs of Hanging Prison! The guards here were not ordinary guards. There were also monsters in the void. Who would dare to break into the Stairs of Hanging Prison?
After the Wise Ruler's investigation, he discovered that it was done by a group of people who called themselves followers of the Mirror Demon God.
These people didn't seem to have any other thoughts. They only worshipped the Mirror Demon God madly. In the words of the Wise Ruler, they were basically fanatics.
Even if the Wise Sovereign captured them, they would die to show their loyalty.
In the eyes of Extraordinaries, a person's death didn't mean that their information would disappear. They could still find clues. But what surprised the Wise Sovereign was that even if these fanatics died, their souls would be blank. They wouldn't have any memories. The only memory they had was their worship of the Demon God.
"The memories of their souls … are blank?" Hearing this, everyone seemed to think of something. "Hollow people? Empty Mirror Ocean? "
The Wise Sovereign nodded. "That's right. It was the Empty Mirror Ocean that caused them to lose their memories and become fanatics of the Mirror Demon God."
"However, at that time, I didn't know about the existence of the Mirror Domain."
Later on, the Wise Sovereign investigated the Mirror Demon God's emblem. After comparing it, he discovered that one of the characters on the emblem resembled Oleo, while the other resembled Adanis.
The Wise Sovereign thus came to the Clear Sky Poetry Room once more.
But this time, the Wise Sovereign was refused entry. No one came out to meet him. The Clear Sky Poetry Room wasn't controlled by the magic array, so the Wise Sovereign couldn't force his way in.
"I used some tricks. In the end, I still forced Adanis to appear." The Wise Sovereign didn't say what tricks he had used, and no one asked. There were many things that didn't need to be explained.
"She admitted to her actions, but her reason was that she wanted to help the Noah clan take back what belonged to Augustine. At the same time, she wanted to take back Margaret's things and place them in the Clear Sky Poetry Room for better preservation. "
The Wise Sovereign naturally didn't believe him. The warden's room had a magic array that had never been broken. Even the Wise Sovereign didn't know what was going on inside.
But Adanis had instructed the Demon God's followers to break the magic array. Who knew what she had taken or what she was thinking?
The main reason the Wise Sovereign didn't believe Adanis was that this was only their second meeting. The Wise Sovereign didn't even know Adanis' background. How could he believe her words?
The Wise Sovereign wanted to see Oleo.
But no matter what the Wise Sovereign said, Oleo didn't appear. The Wise Sovereign could only think of capturing Adanis first before talking about anything else.
And so, the Wise Sovereign and Adanis were at daggers drawn.
However, that was all. There was no further result.
This was because Adanis didn't show herself at all. She was talking to the Wise Sovereign in the mirror. Although the Wise Sovereign already knew about the Mirror Domain, he didn't know much about it. He forcefully broke the mirror, but he still wasn't able to capture Adanis.
In the following period of time, the Wise Sovereign confronted Adanis multiple times, but he was never able to capture her.
Moreover, as the years passed, Adanis grew stronger and stronger. The Wise Sovereign didn't want to see her continue to grow, so he made a painful decision to get rid of her as soon as possible.
As for what the Wise Sovereign planned to do this time, or what the process was like, he didn't go into detail. He only mentioned the result.
The result was …
He signed a contract with Adanis, reaching a balance. This contract was still in effect to this day.
Judging from the result, the Wise Sovereign seemed to have lost out, and in reality, he really had. However, it wasn't as if he hadn't gained anything. Back then, Underworld Slave had been assigned to him by Adanis in order to help the Wise Sovereign clean up the filth in the sewers and prevent any accidents from occurring with the magic array. Not long after Underworld Slave came to the Wise Sovereign's side, the One-Eyed Clan was born.
Perhaps out of consideration for Underworld Slave's love for his children, or perhaps out of consideration for the balance, Adanis didn't forcefully summon the One-Eyed Clan back. As a result, she allowed the One-Eyed Clan to be educated by the Wise Sovereign, resulting in the current Big Bao, Little Bao, and Little Bao.
Apart from Underworld Slave and the One-Eyed Clan, the Wise Sovereign also gained something else: Laplace's friendship.
The Wise Sovereign didn't go into detail, only giving a vague hint.
However, since the Wise Sovereign mentioned Laplace, everyone couldn't help but guess that perhaps the Wise Sovereign had entered the Mirror Domain after his battle with Adanis.
In the real world, the Wise Sovereign might have been able to easily defeat Adanis, but in the Mirror Domain, it was hard to say.
It was no wonder that the Wise Sovereign didn't mention what had happened, only the result.
At this point, the Wise Sovereign had roughly sorted out his relationship with the ruins, the Mirror Demon God, and Adanis. He didn't continue, because he had already noticed that everyone's confusion was about to overflow.
"I can guarantee that everything I've said is true. If you have any doubts, you can ask now. "
After saying this, the Black Earl rushed to ask, "What exactly did she take away? Why did she say that she helped the Noah Clan take it back? "
The Wise Sovereign shrugged his shoulders, "I don't know either. Perhaps it was Augustine's letter? Or perhaps it was something else. "
"As for why Augustine's things were in the Warden's room … I think I mentioned that Margaret is the Warden's daughter, and that they both live at the top of the Stairs of Hanging Prison. It's normal for Augustine to leave something with Marguerite. "
"However, Adanis once said that she would hand these things over to the descendants of the Noah Clan."
When the Sovereign of Wisdom spoke up to this point, he glanced deeply at the Dark Earl and Vay, and then he continued, "But both of you are aware that Adanis' thoughts have changed throughout the past 10,000 years. Her tests for Noah's descendants grew stricter and stricter, and in the end, practically all of them fell into the Mirror Ocean."
"This is why your ancestors left fewer and fewer records about the Chamber of Poetry. Every Noah Clan descendant who knew about it was washed away by the Mirror Sea and turned into a Hollow."
"So, even if you go to the Chamber of Poetry, I can't guarantee that she won't hand over Augustine's things to you."
While speaking, the Wise Sovereign also wrote down his own words in the Book of Truth to prove that he was not lying.
The book did not respond, which meant that the Wise Sovereign really did not know what Adanis had taken away.
Black Earl looked at the words written on the book and fell into deep thought.
Angor spoke up, "When was Adanis born? Is she a Mirror Realm creature, or a spirit?"
The Wise Ruler: "When I first met Adanis, she was already very intelligent and had her own style of doing things. She must have been born for some time, or she must have learned a lot before she was born. "
"I don't know when she was born, but I'm sure she never saw Augustine and Margaret's real bodies. So, she must have been born after Augustine and Margaret left Nether City. "
"As for what she is … I'm sure she's not a native of the Mirror Realm. She has a real body in the real world. But I don't know what her real body is. Maybe she's a mirror or something. "
"What about Olao? What's Olao? "
"Olao is a spirit. I'm sure it's a spirit created by an alchemy item. I once asked Augustine before the fall of Hell, but Augustine's answer was very vague. He only said that it was a mirror. "
"So, there's no mistake that Olao is a mirror spirit. However, based on the information I've obtained from Adanis, Hidden Slave, and the One-eye Family over the years, I can roughly confirm one thing. "
"Olao lost her real body."
"That's my guess, so I won't write it down in the Book of Truth. But I'm pretty close."
"Think about it. Why didn't Olao leave the Chamber of Poetry? I think it's sleeping most of the time. Since it lost its real body, it had to find other ways to keep its body intact."
"Also, why did Adanis become stronger than Olao so easily? Because she has a real body, while Olao doesn't."
"As for why Olao lost his original body, my guess is that … he was taken away by Augustine or Margaret. They thought they'd come back soon, so they took away the alchemy item. But they didn't expect that after so many years, Olao would become weaker and weaker without a real body. "
"And now, Adanis is the owner of the Chamber of Poetry."
These were all guesses of the Wise Lord, so he didn't write them down in the Book of Truth. However, no one cared about this. From the Wise Lord's point of view, he had only seen Olao once after the Hell Incident, and they hadn't seen each other for ten thousand years. It was hard for him to know these things, so he could only make guesses.
Dorcas also asked a question, "Then, what's the relationship between Olao and Adanis?"
This question was very Dorcas' style.
However, this was also a question that everyone was concerned about.
The Wise Lord pondered for a moment before saying, "The last time I saw Olao, he introduced me to Adanis."
"His introduction to Adanis was like this …"
"She's called Adanis, and I'm her guide."
"Adanis' reaction was very interesting. She said, 'I don't like this name.' Olao said, 'But it's the name Master gave me.'"
"Adanis then retorted, 'But I've never seen Master, so I should be the one to decide my name.'"
The Wise Lord paused, "This was the only time they talked about each other."
The 'Master' that Olao referred to was Augustine. Augustine was an alchemy prodigy, and Olao was a spirit that had been born from one of his products.
Based on this speculation, Adanis might have been an item that Augustine had crafted, and it eventually gave birth to a spirit. It was just that Augustine had already left at that time, but before he left, Augustine had given the spirit a name, which was Adanis.
Olao said that he was Adanis' guide. In other words, he was guiding the relationship between humans and talents, teaching Adanis the meaning of existence in this world.
In other words, he was teaching Adanis, a blank piece of paper, about the world, values, and morals.
Of course, Olao wasn't very qualified to be this guide, because Adanis clearly wasn't someone who would let others do as they pleased. She had a very strong personality, and she didn't even like the name that Augustine had given her.
Moreover, as time passed, the Wise Lord saw that Adanis' attitude towards Noah's descendants had changed. She even dared to attack Noah's descendants, and no longer considered herself a 'protector'.
This was also the reason why the Wise Lord felt that Olao wasn't qualified to be this guide.
(End of Chapter)
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