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Chapter 97: Woman, You’re Disturbing My Decoding!

The little maid named Renée slowly opened her eyes.

And then.

“No, don’t hit me! I really can’t take it anymore!”

…Is it fair to say they’re sisters? Their reactions were almost identical.

However, this time, before Renée could grasp the situation, her sister Leila immediately rushed over excitedly.

“Renée! Waaaah, I’m so glad, so glad! God of Freedom bless, I almost thought I would lose you forever!”

“Sister, sister…”

As she seemed to gradually recall everything that had happened, little Renée’s eyes also grew misty.

“Waaaahhh!!”

The two sisters embraced and cried for a long time before awkwardly pulling apart, glancing at the bored Priestess who had started to play with a fragrant fruit.

“There’s no way we can repay your life-saving grace, Lady Vilyric. We sisters have nothing left now, and if you don’t mind, we’re willing to serve you for life, regardless of the command, at least our bodies are still clean.”

Pulled by her sister’s hem, Renée immediately responded, kneeling respectfully on the ground.

“Thank you, Lady Vilyric! Please feel free to command us!”

After putting the fragrant fruit back in her pocket, the Priestess nonchalantly sat on a chair that hadn’t been overturned and glanced at the obediently kneeling maid sisters.

This Leila is quite clever and smart; her words served both to repay the life-saving grace and to seek a powerful protector for the two sisters who had no one else.

Though it was only their first meeting, just the fact that Vilyric had previously unleashed 9th-tier magic, with its might and miraculous transformation, was enough to say a lot.

But…

“No need for such formalities; I didn’t come specifically to save you. Meeting is fate. Though I’m a bit curious to hear your past stories, unfortunately, I’m in a hurry now.”

Taking out paper and pen from her bag, Vilyric casually wrote down a place name and placed it on the table. After dispelling the barrier that enveloped the room, she pointed at the window.

“This place isn’t safe; you should leave directly and find somewhere to hide. Come to the place written on the paper tomorrow at this time to find me, and we’ll talk slowly then. Oh, of course, if you don’t come, that’s fine too; it saves me trouble, alright?”

Renée opened her mouth, seeming to want to say something, but her sister Leila interjected first.

The maid sister respectfully took the paper from the table with both hands, earnestly assuring the Priestess.

“I understand, Lady Vilyric. Everything will respect your wishes; our sisters will arrive on time. Well then, we will take our leave tonight. Thank you so much for your help.”

Having said that, she took her sister’s hand, spread her wings, and flew out of the window without looking back, like two elegant white birds, their poses quite beautiful.

“This Leila is not bad…”

Rescuing these two maids was just a casual act of hers; as for the address on the paper, it naturally referred to the inn where Vilyric lived.

In fact, if it weren’t for Leila and Renée’s identity and past piquing the Priestess’s curiosity, Vilyric would have easily sent them away without giving them this opportunity at all.

After exploring around, Vilyric found that the defenses of this blood clan manor were not as strict as she had imagined. It was quite simple to secretly let two people leave.

But let’s put that aside for now.

“Alright, with all the witnesses gone, perfect infiltration! I can continue searching for that item.”

Taking out the【Dawn of Blood】again, gripping it in her hand, the vague sense of urgency coming from the brooch intensified as Vilyric got closer to a certain something.

Vilyric had no idea what this brooch left behind by Afra was trying to lead her to, but considering that the【Dawn of Blood】had only reacted to the Countess Lucini Constans of prince level, the objects that would resonate with it wouldn’t be simple either.

Most likely, it was related to the core secret of this blood clan manor.

Putting on the【Chameleon Cloak】again, Vilyric erased the traces left by magic and walked out of the messy, wide-open room, while in the deserted fifth floor, she turned around once more.

The several rooms here still belonged to someone in luxury, just with slightly different styles, and unlike the two sisters, there were no blood servants placed inside, which was quite common.

Strange…

The location indicated by the brooch should be nearby, so why can’t I find it?

The entire fifth floor had only a little, and there couldn’t possibly be any hidden chambers or such; where exactly is that object resonating with the【Dawn of Blood】?

…Wait a minute.

That feeling of something clearly being nearby, yet not being able to see it… Have I encountered this before?

Right, the mirror world!

Vilyric suddenly realized something.

From Afra’s memories, the power that created the reflection world should be different from the profane seed itself, resembling more of a relationship between the watcher and the watched.

Moreover, it clearly came from the blood clan.

Because the impression given by the reflection and inversion laws was too similar, she unconsciously had the preconceived notion, but in fact, it wasn’t like that at all.

Perhaps nearby, there is also some mirror-like space.

The entrance should be nearby.

But definitely not on the fifth floor, she’d already searched thoroughly before.

Speaking of, the spatial structure here…

Standing at the edge of the circular corridor, Vilyric looked down and suddenly felt that the tapering structure that reduced in layers seemed similar to what was in her mouth.

If… instead of building upwards, I reverse the logic and derive a pattern of increasing quantity layer by layer…

Got it! It’s the rank structure of the blood clan!

There are six rooms on this fifth floor; if I consider them to represent the layers of the six princes…

Then there must be an even higher one, corresponding to the pinnacle of the blood progenitor.

The pinnacle… the pinnacle?

Overhead!

That’s it.

Vilyric finally realized this blind spot she had been ignoring all this time.

Assuming this manor was designed imitating the structure of the blood clan, then extending the architecture upward would certainly converge at the final point, representing the so-called blood progenitor.

The progenitor is the source and beginning of everything, the very entrance to the world.

No wonder it was designed as a hollow structure, intentionally left unsealed at the top…

With this thought clarified, Vilyric finally noticed the anomalous energy fluctuations emanating from those three moons hanging in the night sky above the building.

What an exquisite design; this passage is probably a one-way opening, allowing entry only from directly beneath to reach the other side’s reflection world, preventing airborne creatures from accidentally intruding.

And the people of the manor itself, if unaware, would focus entirely on the building itself and would never realize that the key lay somewhere above.

Fully understanding the principle, the Priestess no longer hesitated.

Finding a safe corner, she summoned forth the dimmest【Feather of God】, waiting for the【Chameleon Cloak】’s invisibility effect to refresh again. Vilyric then flapped her wings lightly, instantly soaring upwards, heading straight for that hidden entrance in the sky!

The pulse coming from her palm’s【Dawn of Blood】intensified wildly, further confirming her guess.

This is it!

Unlike that time in the Forgotten Land, the mirroring world showed no conscious resistance against the Priestess entering.

Swish.

It felt like she had passed through some layer of membrane; after a brief distortion and fluctuation of space, the world around her suddenly changed. The Vilyric who was originally in the air had now firmly landed on solid ground.