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.

was heavy,

her target, Bernadette realized that there was an extra strand

was wearing an Intis-styled blouse with a large lace flower around the collar, an indigo patterned captain’s uniform, a pair of beige trousers, knee-length boots,

a way that would reach the middle

at her right

all the experience she had accumulated over time. She took a few steps forward, and through an invisible boundary, she completely left the primitive forest and entered the empty area where the Black Emperor’s mausoleum

process, Bernadette even made the Invisible Servant

she felt the earth shake. The mausoleum began

to look at the

froze for a

and uprooting their roots. Then, like

forest had

trees that seemed to blot out the sky surging at her, Bernadette had the feeling that doomsday was approaching. She felt as if the

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

question would bring about such an anomaly. It was as though it was

a lot more. Together with his

like

dead, this loophole was discovered by the order, and

it an enhancement of the

him to maintain a portion of his will after obtaining new “life.” And where did the original order

Eh…

sensed that Bernadette was suffering certain

thump, thump. Bernadette could vaguely hear

heartbeat was rather chaotic, as though it was a combination

stirred as she calmly

that there

from her heart, the other from

additional heart in her abdomen, one that was rapidly expanding

this “heart” was developing

to use her Mystery Prying powers to look at her abdomen, Bernadette immediately sensed that there was a fetus in her

of a normal human palm. If it was left to grow, it didn’t seem like it would

the Sealed Artifact on her body had failed to detect it in

of Desire… Three

could cause such an anomaly. Most of them came from domains

Moon could make a stone have reproductive powers, while the Mother Tree of Desire seemed

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

time, she only took one second to obtain the corresponding