Chapter 967: Cohinem and Yaloran
Tricked by Roselle? Sohow it sounds more like there was a deal between you two... after all, his "Knowledge Emperor" characteristic is still in your hands.
Muttering this in his heart, Ebner listened as Yaloran continued:
"Roselle must have received guidance from the ’Calamity Seal.’ He ca to
with the God Casket, hoping I would help him open it...
"The God Casket was entrusted by the Elf King to Cohinem, to be carried to the Western Continent. Apart from her and , only you—back when you were the God of Fortune—knew how to open it.
"Roselle’s offer had three conditions. First, he promised
the Knowledge Emperor’s Beyonder characteristic. He swore that once he beca the Black Emperor, he would give it to .
"And that, he did not fail to deliver. Even though he was besieged and fell not long after his ascension, he still ’grandly’ fulfilled his promise.
"Still, I suspect he did so deliberately—to draw the Hidden Sage’s attention toward , easing the pressure on his daughter.
"Second, he prepared the advancent ritual required for
to ascend to Knowledge Emperor...
"But I suspect that was a trap. My suspicion had no concrete basis, not even a divination could confirm it, yet my ’intuition’ told
so.
"That is why, even now, I have not reached Sequence 1.
"Third, he said he had ’foreseen’ the clue to the Book of Calamity—that is, the precise ti when your Trial Temple would appear.
"At that ti, I had a premonition that my future might fall into peril, perhaps requiring
to fuse with my other half to survive. So I accepted his terms.
"But who would have thought, Roselle played word gas... When Leticia entered your Trial Temple on my orders, she did indeed find the clue to the Book of Calamity...
"Yet Roselle had already severed her connection with the Book in advance!
"It wasn’t that Roselle was helping
find her—it was that he was helping her hide from !
"I have to admit, that Black Emperor’s thods were formidable indeed. He even hid her within your Trial Temple and helped her gain partial authority over it.
"So much so that when I used Mystery Reenactnt – Vanished Nation of Evernight to draw the Trial Temple into this nightmare town, I still failed to discover her...
"Until just now—your reaction upon recognizing
gave
a premonition. Only then did I locate her.
"But with your help now, I don’t even need to find her for fusion anymore!"
At this, Yaloran wore a clear expression of disdain, as if the idea of "fusion" was deeply repulsive to her.
She paused, glanced at so ornant in the church, and then continued her complaints:
"Roselle opening the God Casket and releasing all the Soul Stones would have been enough, but he even used the Casket’s lid to prepare a century-long ritual. That ritual was finally completed eleven years ago...
"I don’t know what purpose he intended, but after Roselle’s death, the Hidden Sage maintained it. And through that, He confird that the imprint of the Knowledge Moor was on . For the past ten years, He has been hunting ...
"Which forced
to hide in this secret little town, sending only clones outside."
That does sound like Roselle in his later years... always riddled with contradictions... Heh, I rember he even tried to use ’Cohinem’s’ whereabouts as leverage against my master? If that was the case, of course he wouldn’t let you find her so easily!
Besides, Roselle’s ultimate aim was for
to save him—he wouldn’t set up sothing that truly made
his enemy...
And behind many of his thods was the shadow of the Calamity Seal.
Yaloran’s peculiarity was clearly revealed by the Calamity Seal. The location of the Book of Calamity too. Otherwise, how could Roselle so easily find the other half of Yaloran when she herself had searched for centuries without success?
So what exactly was the Calamity Seal’s purpose in all this?
To release the God Casket? To retrieve one of the special souls within? To ensure the completion of that ritual eleven years ago? Or was there so deeper sche?
Still, if it was —the "" of that life who bore the Calamity Seal—while I valued outcos above all, I would always leave a way out. I don’t know if that was habit, or just a trace of lingering humanity...
In any case, Vera’s intelligence was right: the Casket’s lid could indeed locate Soul Stones marked with Sefirot imprints.
That also explains why, beyond the royal faction of the Church of the Eternal Blazing Sun and Yaldabaoth—both clearly tipped off by Roselle—other hidden powers like the Hidden Sage, the Mother Tree of Desire, and even Will Auceptin all involved themselves in that ritual eleven years ago.
They were trying to trace the locations of the Sefirot imprints! That’s why the Hidden Sage went after Yaloran. That’s why the Mother Tree of Desire pushed the Dorian family into contact with that sea monster... Even Little Snake must have drawn so revelation from it...
But why would the True Creator care about the ritual? Why nurture a survivor into the Aurora Order’s Saint of Secret Supremacy...
Was it for Ouroboros?
And as for
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