Chapter 2798 Special Individual <TOC> Chapter 2800 Facing the Goddess Head-On
Translator: SumTLMan
The moment Aedannis saw that it was Kael, she instinctively prepared to interrupt the Sovereign of Wisdom. She was not interested even in an unrelated wizard like Daus, let alone an unrelated apprentice.
However, before Aedannis could say anything, the Sovereign of Wisdom’s very first sentence instead caught her attention.
「Speaking of which, this person is actually the one who started their exploration of the underground sewer this time.」
「This person is very interesting. There is a remnant soul attached to him. With the remnant soul’s unconscious help, he became a talent; and it was also under the remnant soul’s influence that he began a long-lasting ruin exploration plan. This remnant soul seems to care greatly about ruins, perhaps because he wants, by means of this, to find some certain ruin.」
As the Sovereign of Wisdom continued speaking, Aedannis’ interest also gradually rose. And the main reason was that the Sovereign of Wisdom’s way of telling it made Aedannis mistakenly think that the ruin this remnant soul wanted to find was the underground sewer.
Moreover, Kael was even the true one who started their exploration of the underground sewer, which made Aedannis further guess whether this remnant soul might be related to the Ruin Site.
At this point, Aedannis no longer urged him on, but instead carefully listened to the Sovereign of Wisdom’s narration, while in her heart she guessed who this remnant soul might be. Could it be related to Augustine or Margaret, or perhaps related to the Warden Franklin?
As Aedannis listened and thought, she failed to notice that, in this telling of his, the Sovereign of Wisdom still had not mentioned Laplace’s Gift Words.
Again, a long and redundant stretch of narration……
By the very end of it, Aedannis had already heard that something was wrong, and asked about Laplace’s Gift Words.
Only then did the Sovereign of Wisdom say at an unhurried pace: 「Seeker who traces the past, your destination is not here.」
When she heard this sentence, the veins on Aedannis’ forehead were already bulging wildly: 「Are you playing with me?」
The Sovereign of Wisdom still did not change expression: 「How would I dare? I merely introduced them one by one according to what Her Highness instructed. Her Highness told me to speak of the interesting ones, so I spoke of the interesting ones, did I not?」
How could Aedannis still fail to understand the Sovereign of Wisdom’s calculation at this point. Was it not simply that, by doing this, he wanted to test whom she was truly concerned about?
And moreover, by this point, Aedannis also understood that the Sovereign of Wisdom had most likely already guessed whose Gift Words she wanted to hear.
Aedannis let out a deep breath: 「Enough, tell me the Gift Words concerning that other red-haired wizard!」
That other red-haired wizard, without question, referred to Angel after changing his appearance.
At the very beginning of his narration, the Sovereign of Wisdom had been thinking whether Aedannis would once again pay attention to Angel, and now it seemed that this was indeed so.
The Sovereign of Wisdom did not show it on his face, but the doubt in his heart was growing heavier and heavier: just what had Aedannis seen in Angel? Why was she paying such close attention to him?
「As for his Gift Words……」
The Sovereign of Wisdom sighed with feeling. He had originally wanted to suppress first and praise later, but before he could 「praise」, Aedannis’ gaze suddenly stalled for a moment.
And in the very next second, the Sovereign of Wisdom also sensed something, his gaze turning toward the direction where the passage lay, while he murmured in a low voice: 「Are they finally about to meet?」
Aedannis: 「Set his Gift Words aside first. The second matter for which I came to find you is this: I want to obtain control over the magic formations near your great hall.」
The Sovereign of Wisdom glanced at Aedannis: 「That request exceeds the scope of our agreement. The fact that I allow Her Highness to come and go from my great hall as she pleases is already the limit.」
Aedannis rebuked coldly: 「What I want is not control over your great hall!」
Sovereign of Wisdom: 「Her Highness seems to have forgotten that the magic formations around the great hall belong to the great hall’s core node. Transferring them to Her Highness also means indirectly controlling my great hall.」
The Sovereign of Wisdom clearly showed a posture of having no intention of cooperating. Aedannis in fact also knew that this request was somewhat excessive; the reason she put it forward was purely for another purpose.
「If you will not give me control authority, then supervisory authority should be possible, right?」
This was Aedannis’ true objective. She wanted to witness with her own eyes Angel and the others being swallowed by Younus. The others could be thrown into the Sea of Void Mirrors, but Angel absolutely had to die!
The Sovereign of Wisdom also saw through Aedannis’ tactic: first exaggerate the request to something you absolutely cannot agree to, and after you refuse, lower the request, thereby achieving the real objective.
This kind of tactic…… was actually unnecessary.
Because in this matter, he and Aedannis had a common demand. He too was prepared, through the supervisory authority of the magic formations, to check whether Angel could successfully pass beyond Younus and reach the great hall.
Therefore, Aedannis in fact had no need to play tricks. If she had spoken plainly, the Sovereign of Wisdom would also have satisfied her request.
「Her Highness wants supervisory authority because she wishes to admire how Younus swallows the outsiders?」
Aedannis merely let out a cold snort without committing herself.
Sovereign of Wisdom: 「Since that is the case, then why not watch the livestream together?」
「Livestream?」 Aedannis looked at the Sovereign of Wisdom in confusion.
The Sovereign of Wisdom said smilingly: 「This is a term I only learned not long ago. There is no need to mind its meaning. Just watch along.」
Having finished speaking, the Sovereign of Wisdom lightly tapped the wall beside him. The originally thick wall suddenly turned into a transparent screen, and what was playing on the screen was precisely the appearance of Angel and the others groping their way forward outside.
They were still about fifty meters or so away from the fork where Younus was located. However, they seemed already to have sensed that the atmosphere was wrong; their steps had all slowed, their expressions solemn and cautious.
「This is what you call a livestream?」 Aedannis paused for a moment. Although the Sovereign of Wisdom had not handed over the supervisory authority, being able to see the outside situation like this was not unacceptable either.
「It counts, I suppose? What I experienced before was a holographic livestream, but I do not have the ability to make a holographic livestream. Still, simulating an image through supervisory authority is not much of a problem.」 the Sovereign of Wisdom explained.
Aedannis’ gaze remained fixed on the transparent screen, and suddenly she asked: 「Can he also see the livestream?」
The Sovereign of Wisdom turned back to look, only to see that in the image, Angel’s gaze was directed straight at the 「camera」, his eyes staring directly over, as though across the screen he were locking eyes with them two by two.
The Sovereign of Wisdom froze for a moment, and in his heart he guessed in suspicion: could it be that Angel really could see them?
While the Sovereign of Wisdom harbored doubt in his heart, Angel then shifted his gaze again as though nothing were the matter, as though the scene of the mutual gaze just now had been nothing but an illusion.
The Sovereign of Wisdom thought for a moment, then in a firm tone said words that even he himself did not believe: 「Impossible, how could he possibly discover us?」
Although Aedannis also felt somewhat suspicious, seeing the Sovereign of Wisdom so certain, she also believed him.
Because Angel and the others were still proceeding forward step by step, Aedannis turned back and asked about the Sovereign of Wisdom’s earlier question: 「Now you can speak, about this wizard’s Gift Words.」
Sovereign of Wisdom: 「I do not know why Her Highness the Goddess would be interested in his Gift Words?」
Aedannis said flatly: 「That is none of your concern.」
Sovereign of Wisdom: 「Very well then, the answer Her Highness the Goddess wants is…… I do not know.」
Aedannis frowned: 「What do you mean? Are you threatening me?」
The Sovereign of Wisdom shrugged and said with an innocent expression: 「I think Her Highness the Goddess has misunderstood what I mean. What I mean is, that one is unable to see this wizard’s Reflection of the Heart. Which also means that he does not have any so-called Gift Words.」
Aedannis was stunned for a while before she reacted to the Sovereign of Wisdom’s meaning: 「Her Reflection of the Heart cannot see this wizard?」
The Sovereign of Wisdom nodded.
Aedannis murmured in a low voice: 「That is impossible. She was born from this Mirror Domain. How could an ability bestowed by the Mirror Domain possibly fail to see through a human wizard?」
Sovereign of Wisdom: 「That I do not know. Perhaps this wizard’s background is not simple?」
Aedannis lifted her head and stared straight at Sovereign of Wisdom: 「What do you know?」
Just as the Sovereign of Wisdom was about to speak, Aedannis interrupted: 「Do not brush me off. For everyone else, you can say a whole heap of nonsense. When it comes to him, do not tell me you cannot even speak nonsense?」
Sovereign of Wisdom: 「With other people, deductions can be made, and with Gift Words as supporting evidence, more or less something can be said. But him, he is a very shrewd lad; in everything he does, not a single leak escapes. And on top of that, there are no Gift Words either. My understanding of him is indeed very limited.」
Aedannis sneered coldly: 「His name, his identity, what abilities he has, you know none of it at all?」
Sovereign of Wisdom: 「Let us set that aside for the moment. I had thought that since Her Highness the Goddess is so concerned about him, you should already know his identity.」
Aedannis raised her brows, and did not speak.
「Then I find it strange. Since Her Highness does not know who he is, why are you paying him such special attention?」
Aedannis said coldly: 「I said before that this is none of your concern. What you need to do is simply tell me all the information concerning him. As for other matters, you do not need to concern yourself with them.」
Sovereign of Wisdom: 「As for him…… the information I know truly is not much.」
「I only know that he may be an illusion school wizard, or a space school wizard, and that he has some alchemy talent. As for his name, within their team they call him 『Gold』.」
Aedannis: 「What about the other information? What is his purpose in coming here, what special things are there about him?」
Aedannis’ questioning actually provided the Sovereign of Wisdom with quite a lot of information, yet the Sovereign of Wisdom instead grew more and more puzzled.
What he had chosen to say before were all Angel’s principal pieces of information, while he had deliberately concealed the name because he wanted to know what aspect of Angel Aedannis cared about most.
And yet, Aedannis seemed not to know much about, nor care about, Angel’s school, abilities, or name.
That alone would have been one thing, but Aedannis even took the initiative to ask the Sovereign of Wisdom about Angel’s purpose and the special points on his person.
This meant that Aedannis could be said to know almost nothing about Angel.
The Sovereign of Wisdom felt more and more that this matter was very strange. Before this, he had thought Aedannis had some understanding of Angel, but now it seemed that Angel had not lied: he had almost no understanding of Aedannis, and Aedannis had also never met Angel before. Then this became strange. Since Aedannis knew absolutely nothing about Angel, where exactly did her exceptional attention toward Angel, her unaccountable hostility, and even, it could be said, killing intent, come from?
Where was the breaking point of this doubt?
On the surface, the Sovereign of Wisdom responded to Aedannis without any change in expression, but within mental space, countless streams of information were swirling, trying to find possible suspicious points that might exist between Angel and Aedannis.
「His purpose? They all said this was an unexpected adventure, meaning that there was no purpose, they were simply exploring.」
Aedannis: 「Would you believe that kind of nonsense? Even Noah’s descendants have come, and it is still merely simple exploration?」
Sovereign of Wisdom: 「I believe it, because after my appraisal, they were not lying. As for Noah’s descendants, they in fact joined the team later on a temporary basis. In the original team, there were no Noah’s descendants.」
「Also, the special ability on his person…… I have not discovered any at present, but his illusions are very interesting, carrying a flavor all their own.」
The Sovereign of Wisdom was very puzzled, but in truth, Aedannis was just as confused as he was.
According to the agreement, on these questions, the Sovereign of Wisdom would not deceive her. That meant that what the Sovereign of Wisdom said was all true.
Although the Sovereign of Wisdom had previously used verbal tactics, rambling and talking about all sorts of irrelevant things, when he spoke of Angel’s purpose, he had not deliberately blurred the focus.
Then, was Angel really here for the sake of exploration?
But if he had no particular purpose, why would Ouro pay such close attention to him?
And also, even that woman Laplace was unable to see Angel’s reflection of the heart. This too was very strange.
This showed that he could not possibly be a wizard without a story.
Had he deceived the Sovereign of Wisdom, or had Ouro seen the hidden story on him?
While Aedannis was thinking, the focus within the Sovereign of Wisdom’s thoughts was instead converging upon an emblem.
The outer pattern of this emblem was full of marvelous implication, a little bit similar to a true name imprint, while the main body of the emblem was a circular divided diagram, and on the two divided sides were exactly one man and one woman.
This was precisely the so-called mark of the Demon God of Mirrors.
And the female figure on the mark was precisely Aedannis, while that male figure wearing a hat…… was another existence in the Ruin Site.
The Sovereign of Wisdom knew him, and also knew that he had always remained in the Ruin Site, but in the Sovereign of Wisdom’s ten-thousand-year memory, the frequency of his appearance did not even reach the number of five fingers.
And as for his conversations with him, the last one still remained as far back as ten thousand years ago.
At present, the only one maintaining contact with the Sovereign of Wisdom was Aedannis.
And this one, as though divinely hidden, had vanished.
But the Sovereign of Wisdom knew very clearly that he was in fact the most orthodox guide left behind by Augustine.
Aedannis was born later. She had not even seen Augustine and Margaret in person.
However, although Aedannis was born later, she was exceptionally favored, possessing power even greater than that one’s. The Sovereign of Wisdom could even vaguely guess that Aedannis perhaps could already leave the Ruin Site.
Meaning that she was already an absolutely independent individual, and no longer needed to be constrained within the underground sewer.
But she had not left, and instead had remained in the Ruin Site all along.
The Sovereign of Wisdom did not know why, but guessed that perhaps it was related to 「him」.
Then, this time, her paying such close attention to Angel, could it also perhaps be related to the attitude of 「him」?
Chapter 2798 Special Individual <TOC> Chapter 2800 Facing the Goddess Head-On