Chapter 37 Activation
"Already dead......"
Edwards turned his head and looked at Bernadette's "invisible servant" with those light blue eyes, his gaze no longer cold and indifferent, but flashing with a strange light, full of disbelief colors.
It was only at this moment that he seemed to recognize that he had long since died and "lived", and that he was not fundamentally different from William, Pelly, and Greene who needed to be guarded against.
This change lasted only two seconds, and Edwards' face suddenly distorted, and his already pale skin quickly darkened, tearing inch after inch.
Beneath the skin, patches of bright red flesh began to decay at a visible rate, dripping down with a fishy, yellowish liquid.
With a swipe, Edwards raised the iron-black axe in his hand.
Burst!
His axe slammed into the top of his head, as if to stop the bad thoughts from popping into his head.
The axe was heavy and sharp, and it slashed through Edwards' skull and into his eyebrows.
Tick, tick, drop by drop of milky brain pulp slid down the axe's twisted and torn face, like a little milk poured on a bright red strawberry.
"Don't, don't come near me......" After giving himself an axe to his head, Edwards spoke in a low and snarled voice to Bernadette's "invisible servant".
Before he could finish speaking, his expression returned to dullness, his eyes gradually became dull, and he turned his body and walked towards the forest from which he had come.
The tall, thin and shriveled body was slightly curved, and it seemed to be hunched over at once.
Bernadette asked a tentative question just now, because she had too many doubts and worries about entering the mausoleum, so she had to indirectly point out the problems of Edwards himself, to see if she could find more clues from his answer, who knew that this knight of the Northern Continent during the Russell period had such a fierce and strange reaction.
After two seconds of silence, Bernadette asked the "invisible servant" to face Edwards' back and said:
"Your descendants are doing well, and they have all achieved a certain amount. ”
Edwards, with his back to the mausoleum, paused in his footsteps, then continued on his way, passing through the invisible line and submerging into the forest.
His goal seems to be the Pillar Graveyard where the deceased can be given a "new life".
At the same time, Bernadette looked up at the sky.
The faint blackness that permeated the area was noticeably gone, but there was something indescribably sensational, and the whole primordial island had undergone a subtle, indescribable change.
Suddenly, Bernadette, who was hiding on the edge of the invisible boundary, touched her back with her backhand.
She felt like there was something heavy, as if there was something more.
After touching her target with her left palm, Bernadette noticed that what had grown was an extra piece of hair.
At this time, she wore an Indisian blouse with large lace flowers at the neckline, an indigo patterned captain's suit, beige trousers, boots close to the knee, and a three-headed hat with feathers, dressed like the leader of a pirate ship.
Under this image, her long chestnut hair was originally tied into a half-ball, just draped over the waistcoat, but now, although her hairstyle has not changed, her hair has instantly increased to a long length and has fallen to her waist.
Immediately afterward, Bernadette lowered her head and looked at her right palm, where she saw the nails of her five fingers growing out at the same time.
The "Mysterious Queen" was not surprised or flustered, and following the instinct of the "Master of Prophecy" and the experience accumulated for a long time, she took a few steps forward, passed through the invisible boundary, and completely left the primeval forest and entered the open area where the "Black Emperor's" mausoleum was located.
In the process, Bernadette also brought the "invisible servant" back to the spirit world.
After three or four seconds, she felt the ground begin to shake slightly, and the mausoleum trembled significantly.
Subconsciously, Bernadette looked back at the primeval forest.
At this glance, her gaze froze for a moment.
The huge trees, dark green and almost black, waved their branches, plucked their roots one after another, and then, like humans, approached Bernadette.
The whole primeval forest has come to life!
Looking at the flood of trees that almost obscured the sky, Bernadette had the feeling that the end of the world was coming and that everything would be covered by forests.
The huge red dragon with flames on its skin quickly flew into the air, and the eight-legged demon wolf began to run wildly between the trees...... All the transcendent and mutated creatures of this island became restless and came in the direction of the mausoleum.
Although she is a "master of prophecy", Bernadette still did not expect that a simple problem that she did not directly point out would bring about such a level of mutation, as if it was a key that opened the door to the abyss.
Above the gray mist, Crane saw more, and combined with his own occult knowledge, he had a certain guess:
"Edwards' condition is somewhat different from William and Greene's, like a loophole in the order of this primordial island, or rather, a shadow......
"When he realized that he was long dead, the shadow of this vulnerability was discovered by the order, and it began to be 'patched'.
"And 'tinkering' brought about that kind of order enhancement, which led to a change in the entire island.
"I can feel that there is a certain degree of 'Black Emperor' power in this, it is it that has influenced Edwards, allowing him to maintain a part of his will after being 'reborn', and where did the original order of the primordial island come from?
"Huh......"
Klein's thoughts were racing, and he suddenly noticed that Bernadette herself had also undergone a certain abnormality.
Poof, poof, poof, Bernadette faintly heard her own heartbeat.
The rhythm of this heartbeat is quite chaotic, as if it is a mixture of two voices.
Two ...... Bernadette's heart moved, and she calmly turned her attention back to herself.
In the next second, she determined that there were two sources of the heartbeat she heard:
One from her heart and one from her abdomen.
There seemed to be an extra heart in her belly, expanding and contracting unpleasantly.
Moreover, this "heart" is still growing little by little!
There is no need to use the "voyeurism" ability to look at the abdomen, Bernadette directly sensed that there was a fetus in her belly.
"It" has grown from the size of a raisin to the size of a normal human palm, and it continues to grow, and it seems that it will not be long before it matures, tears open its mother's abdomen, and comes out bloody.
Before she knew it, Bernadette was pregnant with a fetus, and neither her spiritual sense nor the seal on her body could detect it in advance and make a stop, as if she was powerless to cope with the effects.
"Mother Earth Goddess...... "Primordial Moon" ...... "Mother Tree of Desire"...... Three names flashed through Bernadette's mind.
As far as she knew, there weren't many mysteries that could cause this kind of mutation, and most of them came from the realms related to the "earth" and "moon" pathways.
- Sequence 0 of the "Cultivator" path is called "Mother", "Primordial Moon" allows stones to gain the ability to reproduce, and "Mother Tree of Desire" is suspected to hold some of the extraordinary characteristics of the "Moon" path.
Bernadette didn't rush to deal with the fetus in her womb, but first let her eyes become dark again, and used her prophetic power to spy on what was the best option for her next.
This time, it only took her a second to get the corresponding prophecy:
"The hope of survival is in the mausoleum. ”
Without hesitation, Bernadette stretched out her right hand and quickly sketched out one star-tingled word after another in mid-air.
These words, which resemble the words on the "Blasphemy Slate", quickly intertwine into bizarre symbols, opening a "secret door" to the depths of the spiritual realm.
Immediately after, the "secret door" opened, and the wind blew out, turning into a man with an upper body and a lower body, wrapped in a white cloth.
"Sage's forehead. Bernardette commanded in a calm and majestic voice.
The man replied respectfully, and took out an ornament from a piece of white cloth wrapped around his body.
The core of this ornament is a vertical eye inlaid with a "diamond", which shines with pure light, giving people an extremely sacred and intelligent feeling, but it also seems quite indifferent and has no temperature.
Bernadette then took the ornament and "set" it to the center of her forehead.
This is a "0" level seal, and Bernadette usually doesn't carry it with her at all, because the negative effects are too serious.
However, at this moment, this "Sage's Forehead Ornament" has an ability that is quite important to Bernadette, and she is willing to bear the consequences of all evil and alien magic that cannot be used, and the extraordinary characteristics will gradually affect the body, little by little.
- If the "Sage Forehead Ornament" cannot be removed in a short period of time, Bernadette will be like being splashed with a Sequence 2 potion on her body, and when the time comes, she will either be the lucky one and successfully promoted to the "Sage", or she will go crazy and become a monster, and the probability of the former is almost negligible without supporting materials and without holding the corresponding ceremony.
With an extra diamond eye on her forehead, Bernadette's body began to blur, decomposing into one stream of knowledge after another.
In an instant, she became a pure information-flow creature.
The fetus in her womb did not get this state, and fell to the ground with a thud.
"It" was slightly half the size of a normal baby, with features and limbs, wrinkled skin, and sticky pus.
As "it" breaks away from its parent body, the "it" that has not yet been fully formed gradually degenerates and quickly dissolves into the air.
The baby, visibly unwilling, struggled to open its mucus-closed eyes and open its mouth wide with sharp fangs for a final struggle.
At this moment, Crane, who was above the gray mist, tapped his fingers on the edge of the mottled long table.
Syllable.
He magnifies the probability that babies will struggle and fail.
The baby was finally unable to sustain itself, and completely dissipated in front of the forest that was pressing down on this side.
At the same time, the torrent of information that Bernadette transformed into entered the mausoleum of the "Black Emperor" through the heavy stone door, and reorganized his original body.
In the process, she seemed to see a black shadow.