Freedom City, Central Tower.
Charlotte sat on the leader’s throne, rubbing her temples in frustration.
In the hall, leaders and officials from various parts of the City-State Alliance were quietly lined up, waiting respectfully to report their work.
“Lady Lilith, the deforestation of the northern forest has been preliminarily completed. As per your request, we have cleared sufficient land.”
“Good.”
“Next, we plan to hire elven craftsn to begin fortress construction as scheduled. Do you approve?”
“Proceed.”
“Additionally, the consecrators have discussed so suggestions regarding the formation to repel the northern cultists…”
“No problem. Implent the discussed results.”
“The selection of personal guards has also completed the preliminary round. The final review will be this afternoon, where you will select the final candidates.”
“Alright.”
“Furthermore, the selection of maids, the announcent has been released. According to your request, the application period is limited to one month.”
“Alright.”
“……”
When the last official finished reporting, the morning had already passed.
Charlotte finally relaxed, her previously expressionless face, maintained to uphold her dignity and status, becoming lively once again.
“Phew… finally done.”
“Thankfully, Lilith left plenty of information, and these leaders and officials are competent enough. I managed to get by without revealing my identity.”
“But… what on earth is going on? Why did I turn into Lilith this ti?”
As she spoke, Charlotte reached out and touched a certain part of her body that felt quite nice, shaking her head.
“No… I should be asking, why do they think I’m Lilith?”
Charlotte was confused.
Very confused.
She had indeed succeeded in crossing over.
But for so unknown reason, everyone believed she was Lilith after this crossing.
At first, Charlotte suspected she had crossed into Lilith’s body. After all, after she embraced Lilith, Lilith’s appearance changed significantly to resemble hers.
But she was sure this body was her own.
Although in an adult form, the divine fla in her heart was unmistakable.
It was indeed her own divine fla, very familiar to her, with no chance of mistake. Not to ntion the core of her faith network, which was the sa as before, even though it couldn’t communicate with her followers from another tiline, it proved her identity.
Moreover, Charlotte could still sense the presence of the Gospel of Blood, even more clearly than in her previous two ti travels.
And then there was her body.
Though Lilith, as an adult, was about the sa height, their body sizes were vastly different…
How could the people of the Free City-State Alliance not notice this?
Sothing was off.
Very off.
Initially, Charlotte suspected she might be trapped in so magical illusion, but after using her divine power to investigate, she dismissed the idea.
Next, she considered whether sothing was wrong with the people around her. But after quietly checking the ntal state of those who mistook her for Lilith, she confird they were perfectly normal.
They genuinely believed she was Lilith.
And their mories and thoughts showed no signs of alteration or influence.
Charlotte even considered whether Lilith’s appearance had changed again after becoming a Demigod, making her look more like Charlotte, so others couldn’t tell them apart…
But further investigation revealed it wasn’t the case.
“I woke up in Lilith’s bedroom this morning.”
“I asked the guards and maids, and in their perception, last night… ‘Lilith’ indeed slept in the bedroom.”
“But this morning, it was ‘’ who woke up.”
“So, where did Lilith go?”
Charlotte was puzzled.
This ti travel was different from the previous two.
Not only had her body changed, but her “identity” had as well.
The only fortunate thing was that she was Lilith’s “teacher.”
In the last ti travel, she had observed Lilith handling work many tis, so she could mimic her actions fairly accurately.
The leaders and officials of the Free City-State Alliance didn’t notice anything amiss, showing no unusual expressions.
Combining her probing and investigation after waking up, Charlotte had a subtle feeling.
That feeling was like…
“Like I crossed over and replaced Lilith’s existence with my own.”
Charlotte muttered to herself.
This thought made her pause imdiately.
Her expression shifted constantly as she sank into deep thought.
“Replaced…?”
“Could it be… this is part of Lilith’s plan?”
Charlotte didn’t know Lilith’s exact intentions.
But through the diary of the Crimson Queen Rowena, she knew Lilith hoped she would achieve sothing.
Or rather, hoped she would achieve sothing after “ti traveling” through history.
“Perhaps… this was Lilith’s deliberate doing.”
Charlotte’s eyes flickered as she looked at the stone calendar on the wall.
Year 495 of the Prophet Era.
It had been about fifteen years since her last ti travel.
Judging by the weather outside, it should be winter, with snow covering the distant lands. Only this city was protected by a magic array, keeping the cold at bay.
“They renad Dawn City to Freedom City? Freedom… Lutecia… I see, I had forgotten that Lutecia is a transliteration from ancient Elvish aning ‘freedom’ in the common language of this continent…”
“However, in the later ages, this land wasn’t this cold. As the capital of the Crescent Kingdom, Lutecia’s climate was quite mild. Such a significant difference in history and the future, could it be due to changes in magic…”
Charlotte mused to herself.
This ti travel had caught her by surprise.
However, it didn’t affect her plan.
Her main objective this ti was to increase her power, and her target was the Old Gods of the Northern Frontier. Acting under the guise of “Lilith” actually made it more convenient to pursue this goal.
After all… the Free City-State Alliance was originally the enemy of the Old Gods, and through the mories she saw in the mirrors, Charlotte knew that the two sides were still at war.
The biggest difference was that the Free City-State Alliance was no longer a small force on the brink of extinction but a giant that occupied nearly half of the Northern Frontier.
This was thanks to the ergence of the “favored ones” —the term the Free City-State Alliance used for bloodbornes.
Wait a minute…
Bloodbornes?
A thought struck Charlotte.
“I am already the Bloodborne Progenitor and can sense the presence of all bloodbornes.”
“I embraced Lilith, so… logically, I should be able to sense Lilith’s bloodline.”
“In the past, there were no bloodbornes in this tiline, but now it’s different.”
“Perhaps… this thod can help find her!”
With this in mind, Charlotte imrsed herself in her consciousness.
Unlike her last ti travel, Charlotte easily entered the ntal world of the Dark Night Castle after this ti travel.
Seated high on the Blood Throne, Charlotte stirred her divine power, and crimson mist rolled in, forming a vast crimson star sea.
However, when Charlotte’s gaze fell upon the crimson star sea, she quickly sighed.
“As expected…”
As she had anticipated, she successfully summoned the crimson star sea representing the bloodbornes.
But the starry sea before her was completely different from what she rembered.
Like her faith network, a large area of the crimson star sea she summoned appeared blank.
It wasn’t a simple blankness; it felt more like a “blockage.”
The blocked area corresponded to where many stars representing bloodbornes should be.
Charlotte could even vaguely sense a kind of repulsion.
That repulsion not only rejected her probing into the crimson star sea but even seed to manifest as resistance in the real world when she tried to delve deeper.
The feeling was subtle and strange.
It was like so sort of rejection response, making her feel like an alien object to the world.
Charlotte pondered, forming so hypotheses.
If her judgnt was correct, this repulsion might very well co from “ti and space.”
“If I continue to delve deeper, I might… very likely be directly kicked back to the future tiline.”
Charlotte muttered to herself.
With that in mind, she abandoned the deeper probe and instead turned her gaze to another direction in the crimson star sea.
Setting aside the interference of “ti and space”, she could still see a few stars there.
Moreover, she could clearly sense the “coordinates” of those stars.
Charlotte imdiately understood.
These stars belonged to this tiline.
These were the second-generation bloodbornes embraced by Lilith!
However, when Charlotte further sensed, she didn’t feel Lilith’s presence among these stars.
Lilith… seed to have vanished.
“Could it be that I really ‘replaced’ Lilith’s existence?”
Charlotte was sowhat bewildered.
At that mont, she suddenly sensed a star rapidly approaching within the crimson star sea.
The brilliance of that star was roughly at the level of a Blood Count, bringing a familiar aura to Charlotte.
“This aura… is it Bardock?”
Charlotte’s mind stirred.
After a mont’s thought, she retracted her divine power and exited the ntal world.
Returning to reality, she spread her spiritual senses.
Soon, Charlotte sensed the sa approaching aura in the real world.
After a while, the guards at the hall’s entrance reported respectfully.
“Lady Lilith, Commander Bardock requests an audience.”
It was indeed Bardock!
Charlotte’s mind settled.
No matter what, seeing a familiar face in this tiline was always reassuring.
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“Let him in.”
Charlotte said.
The guard respectfully withdrew, and soon, Bardock, clad in elven silver armor, entered the room.
He approached Charlotte, bowed deeply, and spoke with reverence and fervor.
“Third Legion Commander Bardock… greets the Savior!”
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