Lord of the Mysteries

“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 emitted a strange glint that was filled with disbelief.

It was only at this moment that he seemed to realize that he had long died and had come back to “life.” He was no different from William, Poli, and Grimm, who he claimed were individuals who they needed to keep up one’s guard against.

This transformation lasted for only two seconds before Edwards’s face twisted. His already pale skin rapidly dimmed as it ruptured inch by inch.

Beneath his skin, the red pieces of flesh began to rot at a discernible speed, dripping foul yellow liquid.

With a swoosh, Edwards raised the black axe in his hand.

Oof!

His axe ruthlessly cleaved the top of his head, as though it was trying to stop the bad thoughts that surfaced in his mind.

The axe was heavy and sharp. It tore through Edwards’s skull all the way to his glabella.

Drip, drip, drip. Drops of milky-white cerebrospinal fluid dripped down from the axe’s blade, sliding across Edwards’s grimaced and torn face, as though he had poured some milk onto a bright red strawberry.

“Don’t… Don’t come near me…” Edwards said in a low and hoarse voice to Bernadette’s Invisible Servant after striking himself in the head.

Before he could finish his sentence, his expression returned to its blank state. The look in his eyes gradually turned hollow as he turned around and walked towards the forest.

That thin and shriveled body of his stooped a little, as though his back was hunched.

Bernadette had probed him because of the doubts and concerns she had about entering the mausoleum. All she could do was indirectly determine the problem with Edwards’s existence, and see if she could obtain more clues from his answer. She never expected this knight from Roselle’s era, who had been famous across the Northern Continent, would react in such an intense and strange manner.

After two seconds of silence, Bernadette made the Invisible Servant say to Edwards’s back:

“Your descendants are doing pretty well. All of them are accomplished in a certain sense.”

Edwards, whose back was facing the mausoleum, stopped for a moment. Then, he continued forward, passing the invisible boundary and entering the forest.

His target seemed to be in the direction of the cemetery with the stone pillar, the place where the deceased could obtain “new life.”

At the same time, Bernadette looked up into the sky.

The faint black colors that permeated the area had clearly faded, but there was an indescribable feeling. The entire primitive island underwent a subtle change that couldn’t accurately be described.

Suddenly, Bernadette, who was hiding at the edge of the invisible boundary, rubbed her back.

felt that it was heavy, as though there

her left palm touched her target, Bernadette realized

flower around the collar, an indigo patterned captain’s uniform, a pair of beige trousers, knee-length boots, and a triangular hat with feathers on it. She was dressed like the leader

hair was tied into a bun, leaving the remaining strands in a way that would reach the middle of her back. But now, even

Bernadette lowered her head and looked at her right palm. She saw the fingernails of

of surprise or panic. She followed the instincts of a Clairvoyant and from all the experience she had accumulated over time. She took a few steps forward, and through an invisible boundary, she

this process, Bernadette even made the Invisible Servant return to

seconds later, she felt the earth shake. The mausoleum began to

turned to look

froze for

waving their branches and uprooting their roots.

forest

at the dense cluster of trees that seemed to blot out the sky surging at her, Bernadette had

flames flowing across its skin rapidly flew into the sky. An eight-legged demonic wolf began to run madly between the trees… All the supernatural beings and mutated creatures on this

indirect question would bring about such an anomaly. It was as

saw a lot more. Together with his

situation of Edwards is different from William, Grimm, and Poli. It’s like a loophole of the order on this primitive island, or rather, a

that he was already dead, this loophole was discovered by

the repairs brought with it an enhancement of the order, causing the entire island to experience

a certain degree. It affected Edwards, causing him to maintain a portion of his

Eh…

suddenly sensed that

thump, thump. Bernadette could vaguely hear her own

heartbeat was rather chaotic, as though it was

stirred as she calmly directed her attention back to

next second, she confirmed that there were two sources

came from her heart, the other from

in her abdomen, one that was

this “heart” was

needing to use her Mystery Prying powers to look at her abdomen, Bernadette

to the size of a normal human palm. If it was left to grow, it didn’t seem like it would take long before it matured.

on her body had failed to detect it in

Moon… Mother Tree of Desire…

weren’t many mysteries that could cause such an anomaly. Most of them came from domains

the Planter pathway was Mother. The Primordial Moon could make a stone have reproductive powers, while

a hurry to deal with the fetus in her stomach. Her gaze turned dark once again as

she only took one