"Unlike the thod used by the Goblin Princess Amora, the Goddess did not use the sub-key to imprison the Fiend Demon's avatar. So where would the sub-key be placed by the opposing side?"
After summarizing the scattered records, Rein grasped an inkling.
"Wait a minute, why sealing? Why not slaughter?"
"Logically, the strength of these Giant Beasts is far below Goddess Matilda, even capable of defeating the Fiend Demon and Evil God, so why seal them?"
Suddenly, a lightning bolt flashed through Rein's mind, tearing through the fog.
"If it were , unless my strength was insufficient to kill these Giant Beasts, there would be no reason to choose sealing as the thod with the assistance of powerful believers."
"Insufficient strength?"
"Could it be likely that she was injured?"
"That's right, it must be so! Although it may not necessarily be an injury, she certainly couldn't exert her full power."
"So, was the Key of Ti's sub-key used to suppress injuries?"
Rein's eyes brightened increasingly.
In other words, the second sub-key is highly likely to be beside the slumbering Goddess.
"Or even... the one sealing the Giant Beasts everywhere wasn't the true Goddess, but her Avatar, which perfectly explains all the irrationalities."
"At least, it's one possibility."
Rein suddenly stood up, his eyebrows raised, expressing excitent.
"So, the key mont is the period between the end of the Goddess's battle with the Fiend Demon and Evil God and the beginning of the sealing journey. Where did Goddess Matilda go?"
Rein quickly stepped over to the silver box, pulling out several ancient texts, ancient diaries, and old sheepskin scrolls—all docunting relevant ti nodes.
"After finishing the divine battle, the Goddess showed rcy to the world...first at the coast of ist County... Magic-tailed Three-headed Sea Dragon..." Rein softly read from an old sheepskin scroll in hand.
...
After a short while, Rein's figure flickered and disappeared from the study.
When he reappeared, he was high above the sky, far from the Imperial City. Having recalculated the direction, Rein's figure flickered again, arriving at the coast of ist County.
Since absorbing the fifth Divine Fragnt, Rein's spiritual power grew further, and his maximum teleportation range extended.
The distance originally requiring at least half a day of travel by high-speed airship was covered in just two flickers.
Staring at the familiar coastline, nostalgia welled up inside Rein.
Previously, there were two underground entrances, but now only a few Empire soldiers were guarding them, evidently showing that the importance of this place had greatly reduced since the last Magic-tailed Three-headed Sea Dragon unsealing and nia battle.
In the next mont, Rein arrived at the familiar underground hall.
The massive bronze Sealing Gate stood open and uninhabited, but the remnants of the Magic-tailed Three-headed Sea Dragon's aura lingered and hadn't dissipated quickly.
After a quick glance around, Rein turned and focused his gaze on the underground hall paved with light cyan stone slabs.
A surge of spiritual power, centered on him, began probing downward.
"If what I speculate is true, it should be not far from here, or maybe even..."
"Possibly just below!"
...
The powerful spiritual power of the Full Moon Wizard level rushed downward like a drilling head!
Fifty ters underground.
A hundred ters...
Two hundred ters...
"Huh? Nothing... Could it be that I guessed wrong?" Rein furrowed his brow, pondering internally.
Three hundred ters...
"Found it!" Rein's face lit up with delight!
In the next second, his figure vanished once more, arriving at a deeper underground level.
In a secret chamber unused for probably tens of thousands of years, a tall, slender figure now appeared.
The first thing that caught Rein's eye was a rectangular stone platform in the center of the room, four large Luminous Pearls, and a conspicuous female body lying atop the platform.
Although the figure wore a Cock Crown Helt and a pale blue, ancient Battle Armor obscured her face, the high rise of the chest armor and the skirt-like folds of the armor's hem unmistakably indicated it was a female.
Yet what grabbed Rein's attention most was the pair of sub-keys of the Key of Ti held in her hands.
The upper part was hollow and circular, while the lower part descended straight like a sword, identical to the sub-key Rein acquired from the Goblin Princess Amora.
Additionally, Rein keenly noticed the shimring, sand-like grains at the bottom of the sub-key circle had almost worn away, leaving only about one-tenth.
"Huh? This is!"
As Rein approached further, a scene unfolded before his eyes that left him astounded.
Amid the soft halo protection, strands of evil qi could be seen through the Goddess Armor's skirt hem gaps.
"This is... tainted by evil qi?"
Rein's expression registered shock, but after thorough examination, he was sure that if the figure before him was indeed the true body of Seasonal Wind and Ocean Goddess Matilda, then she must have been tainted by the Fiend Demon before falling into her slumber.
"Even with the might of a True God, can the Fiend Demon's corruption not be eradicated?"
Rein's brows furrowed tightly, increasingly fearful of the Fiend Demon.
Goddess Matilda was a True God from millennia ago, ostensibly a level higher than his current Full Moon Wizard status.
"But fortunately, due to the Key of Ti's sub-keys, the Fiend Demon's corruption hasn't fully taken hold..."
From the neckline seam of the ancient Battle Armor, Rein could see Goddess Matilda's neck skin was fair and luminous, utterly normal, with no trace of evil qi corruption.
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