Quartz Gate.

This was once the location of the old city hall and the artificial island management company, but now it has been completely cleared out. The overall building looks like a huge gem palace, a gorgeous castle wrapped in transparent glass walls.

Now, this beautiful palace has been abandoned, but it still retains its former charm.

Ellie followed Zaharias into the castle and soon saw six ice coffins covered by the glass ceiling. They were exactly the same as the ice coffin No. 12 that Ellie had seen in the ruins before, and there were also girls of the same appearance sleeping inside them, but Ellie could feel a strong magical power from them.

And in the center of these coffins, there is a gray-haired girl wrapped in gem crystals.

"Welcome to my 'Flame Banquet', Miss Ellie."

Zaharias stopped, then suddenly turned around and bowed gracefully to Ellie. When he raised his head again, the face of the middle-aged man had turned into the face of a teenager with gray hair.

This face-changing trick is pretty good.

Ellie just looked at him quietly, smiling, with no change in her expression. Zaharias took a step back and looked at her with a smile.

"Let me introduce myself again. I am Baltasarul Zaharias, the Blood Follower of the Fourth True Ancestor."

"When does it begin?"

After listening to Zaharias's self-introduction, Ellie just glanced at the ice coffins and then asked. When he heard Ellie's question, Zaharias's expression froze slightly.

He originally thought that the other party would ask why he wanted to revive the fourth primogenitor and what he wanted to do, so that he could say everything he wanted to say. But Zaharias didn't expect that the little girl would be so disrespectful to him. She didn't ask anything and came here as if it was a routine formality. She didn't care about why he wanted to revive the fourth primogenitor.

Something seems to be wrong...

As a death merchant, Zaharias instinctively sensed a hint of danger. However, he calmed his inner uneasiness and spoke again.

"Please rest assured, Miss Ellie, I have no intention of harming you. Please don't be afraid. I just hope that you can repeat the miracles you performed in the past."

At this point, Zaharias paused and looked at Ellie again. He was waiting for her to ask "what miracle?" so that he could repeat his story. However, Ellie just took out her phone from her cloak, checked the time, and then looked at Zaharias again.

"Can we start now? I'm in a hurry."

“…”

Something is wrong. Something is very wrong.

Looking at Ellie, who was calm and even a little bored, Zaharias felt more and more uneasy. This was definitely not the reaction he expected, but at this moment Zaharias no longer hesitated and raised his hands high.

"Then, let's begin the Feast of Flames...! Please wake up, Fourth True Ancestor! Your servants are here to offer sacrifices for you, and pray for your awakening!!"

“Woo…”

At the same time, the girl in the ice coffin began to emit a cold blood-red glow, and as if corresponding to it, the same color appeared on Ellie's body. Seeing this, Zaharias finally breathed a sigh of relief, because Ellie's behavior was so strange before that he even doubted whether this girl was really possessed by the soul of the Fourth True Ancestor as rumored. To be honest, Zaharias even doubted whether this girl was just a trap, but now it seems... the soul of the Fourth True Ancestor is indeed in her body.

“Ugh…ah…”

At this moment, Ellie closed her eyes tightly, holding her head and trembling slightly as if she was in great pain. The bright red magic power condensed on her body like a torrent. Then the next moment, the black wings condensed by the magic power suddenly spread out from behind Ellie, and then several tentacles shot out from them and pierced into the chests of the six girls in the ice coffins. The blood vessels on them began to fluctuate rapidly, as if they were absorbing something.

Afterwards, the six girls sealed in the ice coffins were covered in light and disappeared without a trace.

At the same time, Ellie was also feeling bad.

Although the soul of the Fourth True Ancestor had been destroyed, her memory, knowledge, and power still existed. It was just like a compressed file sleeping in Ellie's body. Now, with the input of the "decompression password", the compressed file was released in an instant, bursting out with information that was dozens of times its capacity.

If Fang Zheng or Red Ponytail were here, then the information flow from the Fourth True Ancestor would be nothing more than a spring breeze, meaningless. But it was still too difficult for Ai Li.

At the same time, what flowed into Ai Li's body were the souls of the six girls - no, strictly speaking, they were the twelve beasts of the fourth true ancestor sealed in the bodies of the six girl dolls. Vampires feed their beasts in their own blood, and now, they have broken away from the false shell and returned to their original owners.

Simply put, it's like a medium-configuration computer, with the highest-quality "Crysis", "Doom", "GTA", "Assassin's Creed", "Metro" and "The Elder Scrolls" added with 4K high-definition textures open at the same time...

This computer is about to explode!

What Ellie has to do now is to use the mouse to close these automatically installed games as soon as possible on the computer that is almost crashing. Otherwise, her CPU, graphics card, memory, etc. will all be completely ruined, and the motherboard will definitely be scrapped!

"puff!!"

Blood spurted out of Ellie's mouth. At this moment, behind her, the wings that seemed to be formed by blood and flesh gradually emitted shining colors. Seeing this scene, Zaharias clenched his hands excitedly and stared at the girl in front of him.

But after a moment, suddenly, everything gradually changed.

The wings that were originally shining with colorful light gradually lost their brightness, and then turned into a dark whirlwind, gradually wrapping around the girl's body, and then quietly dissipated.

Then, Ellie slowly opened her eyes, blinked, and moved her hands and feet.

"I didn't expect that the power of the Fourth True Ancestor is really a bit difficult to control, but fortunately..."

As she spoke, Ellie nodded to Zaharias in front of her.

"Thank you for your help, I'm leaving now."

“Wait, wait a minute!!!”

Seeing the girl turn around and leave, Zaharias was stunned. He didn't understand what was going on. Did the ritual fail? This was impossible! The six Flame Night Masters had clearly resonated with her, and the powerful force just now was indeed from the Fourth True Ancestor! As the follower of the Fourth True Ancestor, he naturally couldn't miss this! !

But why does this girl seem to have not changed at all, and what does it mean that you...left?

"You won't obey my wishes? You won't accept the plea of ​​a blood follower like me? As the Chosen Emperor, I have offered a sacrifice for you!!"

"I appreciate your kindness."

Ellie turned around, the smile on her face unchanged.

"But I didn't use your 'sacrifices'. I returned them intact... The magic power came from the people in your territory. Sorry, maybe the original Fourth True Ancestor needed this thing, but it's too redundant for me, so I don't need it anymore."

From the memory of the fourth True Ancestor, Ellie clearly understood why this True Ancestor needed the "Feast of Flame" to awaken. As mentioned before, this world setting has the theory of "inherent time accumulation", which means that the longer a person exists and the more events he experiences, the stronger his magic power will be.

The Fourth True Ancestor is different from the other three True Ancestors in that she was created, so her "accumulated inherent time" is far less than that of the other True Ancestors. Therefore, in order to fully awaken her, a large amount of "inherent time" is required. To put it bluntly, the essence of the Flame Feast is to find hundreds of thousands or even more people and dedicate their memories to the Fourth True Ancestor - well, it's equivalent to each person giving me one dollar. As long as 1.2 billion people give me one dollar, I can become a billionaire.

To put it bluntly, it's like a vampire's spirit bomb.

Of course, this is not without cost, the person who donated the memory will lose this part of the memory. Ellie certainly does not need this, because due to the setting of this world, the magic power in her body is so full that she can't use it up at all. She just didn't find the "decompression password" before. Now that she has the "decompression password", Ellie can completely rely on her own magic power to drive the power of the Fourth True Ancestor, and she doesn't need the memory of others at all - so she returned all the inherent time.

“…”

Hearing this, Zaharias's expression gradually froze.

"What do you mean...'original'?"

“That’s what it means.”

Ellie looked at him with a smile.

"I killed the fourth True Ancestor two years ago. Her soul has been completely wiped out by me. Only the power remains in my body. I had thought about how to release this power... I didn't expect you to come to me and hold an awakening ceremony for me. Well, thanks to you, I have successfully recovered six familiars. Ah, plus the original ones in my body, it should be seven? Anyway, thank you very much."

“You…you…”

Looking at Ellie who put her hands together and thanked him with a smile, Zaharias' face turned pale. He raised his hand tremblingly and pointed at Ellie. His face turned red and then pale, but soon he forced himself to calm down, looked at Ellie and pleaded in a low voice.

"Even so, I still pray for your help, the great Fourth True Ancestor. I am your Chosen Emperor, I have held the 'Flame Feast' for you, and I have only one wish!"

While yelling, Zaharias pointed at the body of the gray-haired girl that was originally wrapped in the ice coffin.

"That's my sister! She used to be the priestess who protected Number One, but in the end, she died to protect your beast, and I was also killed for trying to protect her. But my sister resurrected me in the end and made me the blood servant of Number One! So, I hope you can show mercy and resurrect my sister!"

“Haha…”

Faced with Zaharias' painful pleas and screams, Ellie sighed helplessly.

"Mr. Zaharias, although it's hard to say, the memories of the beast are shared with me. Do you understand what I mean?"

“…”

"Your sister did die to protect Number One, but she died in your hands. You killed your sister in order to obtain Number One's rib, and then you snatched Number One's rib and became the Blood Follower of the Fourth True Ancestor..."

As she spoke, Ellie looked at him and shook her head.

"You wanting to revive your sister is just an excuse. By the way, I am a witch after all. Do you think I didn't find out the magic trap you hid in your sister's body? I really can't understand, Mr. Zaharias, what gave you the courage to think that you could deceive the Fourth True Ancestor with such a trick?"

“No…I…”

"By the way, you originally thought that the soul of the Fourth True Ancestor was in my body, so you wanted to capture the soul of the Fourth True Ancestor and manipulate it, but I'm really sorry, the soul of the Fourth True Ancestor has completely disappeared... So it seems that your wishful thinking will not work."

As she spoke, Ellie snapped her fingers. The next moment, the blazing fire suddenly transformed into a giant snake that suddenly appeared, opened its mouth and swallowed the crystal in one gulp, turning it and the body of the girl sleeping inside into ashes.

"I hope you don't find such a mentally retarded brother in your next life."

Looking at the girl's body that disappeared into gray smoke, Ellie muttered something in a low voice, and then looked at Zaharias not far away again. But this time, the gray-haired boy was terrified and staggered back. He looked at Ellie with fear in his eyes, as if he had seen some great devil...

Hmm? Shouldn't he who tried to awaken the fourth true ancestor and manipulate him be the boss?

Why do I feel like I've become the boss now?

"Oh, by the way, I have to take something back from you in the end. Number One is also very angry. It's time to settle the humiliation of having his ribs taken away by force."

As she spoke, Ellie took out her magic wand.

"Ribs are flying."

“Ugh…ah…”

As Ellie chanted, Zaharias suddenly stopped, and he grabbed his chest in pain, scratching it hard. But soon, his chest cracked open, and then two broken ribs flew out directly from it. At the same time, Zaharias, who had lost his ribs, turned directly into a ball of dust, shattered like broken sawdust.

The two ribs were also engulfed by flames on the way and disappeared completely.

Ellie raised her hands, stretched, and looked around - the men in black who had been following her had completely slipped away at some point, and not even their shadows could be seen.

When the tree falls, the monkeys scatter.

Thinking of this, Ellie shrugged her shoulders and sighed. Then she looked at the broken hall in front of her again and turned around.

It was time to go home, Nagisa was still waiting to make dinner for him.