The “illusion” ended with that detached and cold voice, and Charlotte’s consciousness returned to reality.
The information contained in the “illusion” Rowena experienced was far more than Charlotte had imagined, and the scenarios were much more vivid than she had anticipated.
Even with the will of a Demigod, Charlotte montarily felt a bit disoriented.
This sense of disorientation was quite familiar to her. Before becoming a Demigod, she had experienced similar sensations when using mory magic to quickly browse through books and read mory crystals provided by Albrecht.
It was the soul’s tremor caused by receiving an overload of mories in a short period.
This detail made Charlotte’s heart skip a beat.
The reason an “illusion” is called an illusion is because it does not involve real mories.
mories are the most wondrous things. No matter the level of existence, any change involving mories leaves traces, and soul tremors are one such trace of mory increase.
Illusions, however, are different.
Compared to actual mories, illusions are more like
dreams, experiences that occur naturally in the mind of the experiencer. The only factor is whether the experiencer’s impression is deep.
Illusions based on the ntal world will not cause soul tremors.
The purpose of illusions is to blur the line between reality and unreality. If they caused soul tremors, the experiencer would imdiately realize that everything they experienced was false.
Illusions that cause soul tremors are not truly “illusions” but rather “mory modifications” or “ntal manipulations.”
The terms “illusion”, “mory modification”, and “ntal manipulation”, which can influence the target’s judgnt and cognition, are collectively known as “illusion arts.”
In other words, although Charlotte had read various “illusions” experienced by Rowena, logically, she should not have experienced such disorienting soul tremors.
The fact that she did experience such soul tremors indicated one thing.
What she had read… was not just re illusions but rather lost mories hidden deep within Rowena’s soul.
With this in mind, Charlotte’s expression instantly beca solemn.
In the “illusion”, she saw Rowena experiencing death over and over again.
If that was not an “illusion”, and if all of it were real “mories”, then wouldn’t it an Rowena had fallen thousands of tis?
Adding to this the striking similarity in the scenes of her demise and the faint rhythmic sensation of the Gospel of Blood in Charlotte’s consciousness while reading the “illusions”, Charlotte had a bold and absurd guess.
Could it be… that everything in those “illusions” really happened?
That they were Rowena’s lost mories and represented a history that had actually occurred?
This guess was astonishing.
But when Charlotte recalled the broken “history fragnts” in the “Ti Passage”, she felt it could very well be true.
There was a major problem with the history of the Myria world.
Many places had errors, and many even had blanks.
History could not have problems without reason, and if it were man-made, everything would make sense.
“So… I may not be the first to travel through ti. Perhaps there were others who made even more ti travels before .”
“It’s very likely that so existence has been continuously resetting the history of Myria, or… reshaping history, and each of these resets, reflected in Rowena’s lost mories, are Rowena’s repeated deaths.”
“In other words, the current fragntation and errors in Myria’s history are due to so existence repeatedly resetting history, an existence… trying to change history.”
“However, since the thousands of segnts in Rowena’s ‘illusions’ depict very similar scenes, it indicates that… the entity has failed.”
“Lilith once left a ssage, stating that history cannot be changed but can be created.”
“Could it be… that this person trying to change history is none other than Lilith?”
“The broken blood moon… symbolizes Lilith’s fall and the extinction of the bloodborne.”
“Did Lilith want to change the outco of her own fall and the extinction of the bloodborne?”
“And the last scene… seed to show Rowena and several other mythological figures ‘rebelling’ against Lilith. Although I couldn’t see the appearances of the other mythological figures clearly, their power belonged to the bloodborne, and they were likely the other princes.”
“The final scene was also different from the others. Perhaps… in the final scene, history was successfully disturbed, and that… might be the history of my later generations.”
“At the end of the ‘illusion’, although the cold voice changed its tone, I wasn’t unfamiliar with its timbre. It was the voice of the entity behind the ‘door.’”
“In other words… the entity behind the ‘door’ is preventing disturbances to history?”
At this mont, Charlotte had thought of many things.
Combining all the information she had previously gathered, a clearer picture gradually ford in her mind—Lilith had a great enemy.
This great enemy was likely responsible for the fall of the bloodborne and Lilith’s demise.
Lilith could not defeat this enemy, so… she attempted to reset history through so ans, hoping to change the outco by altering history.
But all attempts to alter history had failed. The blood moon shattered, the princes fell, and in those mory fragnts, everything was heading towards destruction.
Until… Charlotte’s ti travel.
And Charlotte’s ti travel was likely one of Lilith’s backup plans.
Lilith left the Gospel of Blood to Charlotte. The Gospel of Blood not only helped Charlotte quickly master the power of the bloodborne to beco the True Ancestor but also allowed her to travel back in ti.
Lilith’s enemy was the entity behind the “door.”
Moreover… the entity had now discovered Charlotte’s ti travel and even pursued her.
The entity wanted to prevent Charlotte from “changing” history and, furthermore, seed to covet her.
As the puzzle pieces ca together, Charlotte’s expression grew increasingly solemn.
She could almost foresee that she had likely beco a thorn in the side of the entity behind the “door.”
With this thought, Charlotte sighed slightly in her heart.
Lost mories cannot be awakened without reason, especially not mories of Rowena’s countless lifetis.
Charlotte had read the mories at just the right mont.
Combined with the rhythmic sensation of the Gospel of Blood while reading, she could almost guess that her “mory reading” this ti was likely a backup plan left by Lilith using the Gospel of Blood.
The other party… might be using this thod to tell her what exactly happened.
“History cannot be changed, what has already happened in history will inevitably happen again.”
“In all the ‘illusions’, the final outco is the extinction of the bloodborne.”
“But in the last illusion, there was no depiction of the bloodborne’s extinction, only the ‘fall’ of the True Ancestor.”
“However, now I have traveled through ti, I have beco the True Ancestor of Blood, and I am even gradually replacing Lilith.”
“Even the ‘fall’ of the True Ancestor no longer counts.”
“In other words… what I need to deal with next is to prevent the extinction of the bloodborne and my own demise?”
“The likely cause of the bloodborne’s extinction and the True Ancestor’s fall is the entity behind the ‘door.’ In other words… it is now my turn to confront the existence behind the ‘door’ through repeated ti travels.”
“History cannot be changed but can be created. In other words, I can only disturb the already chaotic history and fill in the gaps. If I want to defeat the entity behind the ‘door’, it must be achieved in the future era.”
“The entity behind the ‘door’ desires my power, and it seems to want to devour . I need to grow stronger through repeated ti travels, beco a true God, and find the weaknesses of the entity behind the ‘door’, then defeat it in the future!”
Charlotte’s thoughts turned, and she understood many things.
However, she still had many doubts, such as the true identity of the entity behind the ‘door’, why Lilith chose her, whether she was rely a tool chosen by Lilith, and whether Lilith had other purposes or even conspiracies…
These things were unknown to Charlotte.
Moreover, why the entity behind the ‘door’ referred to Rowena as a distortion node was also puzzling.
Charlotte’s Gospel of Blood would also react to Rowena, and even the ti-travel tunnel could open when approaching her, which made Charlotte suspect there might be other secrets about Rowena.
Combining this with the last scene in the ‘illusion’, Charlotte suspected it might be related to the shadow of the ‘Gospel of Blood’ that ultimately fell upon Rowena.
With this thought, Charlotte looked at Rowena again.
“Lady Lilith, is there sothing wrong with my body?”
Seeing Charlotte’s serious expression, Rowena weakly asked.
Charlotte hesitated for a mont and shook her head.
“No, your body is fine, and the absorption of the bloodline power is also good.”
This wasn’t a lie.
During the process of retracing the ‘illusion’ mories, Charlotte’s divine power had already connected with Rowena’s body.
In Charlotte’s perception, Rowena’s absorption of the bloodline power she provided was quite effective, even stronger than that of several future princes.
If Charlotte didn’t know that she had only embraced Lilith once in her last ti travel, she might even suspect that Rowena was also a direct descendant of her as the true Bloodborne Progenitor.
Wait a minute…
A descendant directly embraced by the true Bloodborne Progenitor?
Charlotte’s heart skipped a beat as she seed to have connected the dots.
She looked at Rowena with a serious expression and asked.
“Rowena, who was the bloodborne that gave you the first embrace?”
Rowena looked sowhat puzzled.
She shook her head and answered sowhat awkwardly.
“Sorry… Lady Lilith, I… I can’t recall.”
“You… can’t recall?”
Charlotte’s expression showed surprise.
“Yes, I can’t recall. I beca a bloodborne after the Battle of Silver City not long after, but… that mory is a bit unclear.”
Charlotte frowned.
“Is there no record in the city-state?”
Rowena’s expression was troubled.
“The records in the city-state say that I drank the assigned blood, but I can’t recall. However… others said that I drank the blood of a certain noble, but no one told which noble’s blood it was.”
Charlotte’s frown deepened.
During the past few days of her ti travel, she had beco familiar with the workings of the Free City-State.
To expand the bloodborne army, the Free City-State Alliance had distributed the first embrace blood several tis, provided by second-generation bloodbornes, with each one strictly recording the identity of the provider.
Logically, if Rowena drank the assigned first embrace blood, it would be impossible for no one to know her lineage.
Moreover, Charlotte had read about the elders of future Demigods in various records, but there was no record of Rowena’s elder in those records.
So… where did Rowena’s bloodline co from?
The entity behind the ‘door’ referred to Rowena as a distortion node.
The Gospel of Blood also reacted to Rowena.
Rowena’s mory of becoming a bloodborne was unclear.
Could it be…
Charlotte’s heart raced, and a bold guess suddenly arose in her mind.
She took a deep breath, looked at the timid bloodborne girl in front of her, and said softly.
“Rowena, close your eyes. I need to further examine your body.”
Rowena obediently nodded and closed her eyes with so nervousness.
Charlotte extended her hand, touched her forehead, and once again mobilized her blood divine power.
The crimson glow spread, wrapping Charlotte’s divine soul and delving into Rowena’s ntal world.
The vision suddenly changed, and the next mont, Charlotte found herself in an empty world.
It was a fragnted world composed of countless mirrors.
Each mirror flickered with different scenes, and all the scenes were identical to the lost mories of Rowena that Charlotte had seen.
In the center of the fragnted world, a crimson book was slowly rotating.
It appeared illusory and emitted a faint glow. It was unmistakably the ‘Gospel of Blood’ Charlotte was familiar with.
However, upon closer inspection, it was found to be not the real Gospel of Blood but just the back cover of the Gospel.
Just as Charlotte saw the back cover of the Gospel, she felt her own Gospel of Blood in her consciousness suddenly burst into dazzling brilliance.
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The crimson light spread, instantly filling Rowena’s entire ntal world, and at the sa ti, the back cover of the Gospel in the fragnted world also emitted a crimson glow.
When the dazzling light faded and everything returned to calm, Charlotte found herself back in the Dark Night Castle.
She was seated on the Blood Throne, with a magnificent full-length crystal mirror before her.
In the crystal mirror, her own reflection was visible, and the next mont, Charlotte saw her reflection in the mirror smile slightly. That familiar yet strange smile carried a subtle sadness and nostalgia.
“Teacher, we… finally et.”
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