Chapter 36: The Picture in the Prophecy



Bernadette was silent for two seconds, and responded through the "Invisible Servant":

"Uncle Edwards, why are you here?"

She used the name she used when she was younger to reduce the chances of unnecessary accidents.

When her voice echoed into the surrounding air through the Invisible Servant, it was dry and hoarse, completely different from its normal state.

Edwards' face was pale, as if he had just crawled out of a grave, without any temperature:

"I don't know either.

“I woke up one day and found myself back on this island.

"Perhaps this is my destiny, the destiny of guarding His Majesty."

After each sentence, he would pause, but he didn't look out of breath. It seemed that he hadn't spoken for a long time, so his throat was "rusty" and not very used to it.

Without waiting for Bernadette to ask, the knight who had been famous throughout the continent for more than a hundred years added in a calm tone:

“Your Majesty’s mausoleum is nearby.

“I have been watching over this place, waiting for His resurrection.

“However, after so many years, there has been no movement in the mausoleum.

"There has been no sign of resurrection."

Bernadette asked the Invisible Servant to look around and said:

“This cabin is where you live.”

Edwards's exposed skin was slightly dry, which contrasted with his existing age spots. He answered in a low, hoarse voice with some pauses:

"right.

“I used the surrounding trees as materials to build this house.”

Bernadette's "Invisible Servant" looked in the direction she came from and said:

"Uncle William and the others aren't with you?"

Edwards's cold and wooden eyes moved:

“They have already been contaminated and died.

“Now, although they are alive again, they are closer to monsters than their original selves.

“Your Highness, you must be wary of them and avoid them.

"No one can be trusted except Benjamin and me."

Bernadette was silent for a while, then asked through the Invisible Servant:

"Where is my father's mausoleum? I want to take a look."

Edwards moved his neck slightly stiffly:

"good."

He then walked towards the wooden house step by step and took out a rusty iron-black axe from it.

"I'll take you there." Edwards said, looking at the "invisible servant" who should be invisible normally.

During this process, his expression was stiff and there was almost no change.

“Okay.” Bernadette responded at the edge of the forest, and with the help of the “Invisible Servant”, her dry and hoarse voice echoed around her.

Edwards was nearly 1.9 meters tall and looked rather skinny. He held an axe in his hand and walked towards the rear of the cabin, saying in a level voice:

“Very close.

"Be careful on the road."

Bernadette immediately controlled the "invisible servant" and made it follow closely behind Edwards who was wearing luxurious clothes.

As they walked through the primeval forest one after the other, Bernadette suddenly asked the Invisible Servant:

"Uncle Edwards, what were you worshipping in that empty space before?"

Edwards didn't look back, and his pace remained almost consistent:

"His Majesty."

Bernadette, who was at least two kilometers behind him and the "Invisible Servant", immediately raised her eyebrows and took nearly three seconds to control her emotions.

Through the Invisible Servant, she continued to ask without any emotion:

"Uncle William and the others are also worshipping him?"

Edwards paused for a moment, but he kept his back to the Invisible Servant and the Peering Eyes.

"No."

He slowed down his pace as if he was thinking about the answer:

"I don't know what they are worshipping..."

Bernadette narrowed her eyes slightly, as if she saw some changes in the river of fate.

She did not ask any more questions, and let the "Invisible Servant" quietly follow Edwards, moving towards the peak of the island among the huge dark green trees and dark sharp bushes.

In just four or five minutes, the trees in front suddenly disappeared.

This is not the kind of disappearance that gradually transitions from dense to sparse and then to blankness. Instead, the huge trees suddenly disappear with an invisible line as the boundary.

Outside the invisible boundary is a mountain several hundred meters high, and it is also covered with giant dark green and almost black trees. When viewed from a distance, it almost merges with the forest and is difficult to distinguish between the two.

However, most of the side of the mountain facing Edwards and Bernadette was treeless because half of the mountain had been hollowed out.

In the belly of the mountain, a black mausoleum stands there, looking extremely magnificent.

Most of it belongs to the mountain itself, and a small part has traces of artificial construction and polishing, which truly illustrates what is meant by "using the mountain as a tomb".

Therefore, the appearance of this mausoleum is not the common pyramid shape, but more like a towering mountain. It is not symmetrical, but absolutely majestic.

I don't know if it was the mausoleum itself that had an impact on the outside world, or if Edwards had cleaned it up, but not a single weed grew on its surface, nor was it covered with the vines that were common in other parts of the mountain.

This allowed Bernadette to directly see the various words and symbols engraved on the mausoleum through the "Eye of Peering into Secrets", and to see the heavy stone door that seemed to be prepared for giants and was nearly thirty meters high.

Bernadette was not unfamiliar with those words and symbols. With just a brief identification, she recognized that they either came from the Civil Code formulated and promulgated by her father, or belonged to the new social trends he founded, or were directly the design drawings of certain inventions.

As Bernadette examined it carefully, Klein above the gray fog was completely certain that this was the last mausoleum left by Emperor Roselle.

This was somewhat similar to the mausoleum he had seen in the Tudor ruins, with the majesty and distortion belonging to the "Black Emperor".

After walking out of the primeval forest, passing the invisible border, and arriving not far from the mausoleum, Edwards stopped.

He half turned his body, and aimed his pale face and cold eyes at the Invisible Servant, and said in an unchanged voice:

“Don’t go in.

"That would interrupt the resurrection..."

Bernadette frowned slightly, thought for two seconds, and then used the "Eye of Prying Eyes" to lock onto the mausoleum.

Then, her blue eyes, like the sea, suddenly became extremely deep, like the sea surface before a storm.

In this situation, she obviously lost focus and her eyes were blank.

She was peering into that river of destiny, predicting the next actions.

Klein, who was above the gray fog, tapped the mottled table again, increasing her chances of success and preparing to fight against the pollution of the starry sky.

Of course, the latter is not necessary, because Bernadette has a "0" level seal that she can control.

The next second, Bernadette raised her right hand.

Her skin suddenly became as white as snow, her lips became as red as blood, and her hair became as black as ebony.

There was an illusory, ancient mirror in her hand.

This is the "Snow White" in the fairy tale magic. Bernadette uses it to improve the success rate and accuracy of her "predictions".

Silently, she "saw" a scene:

The majestic and solemn dark mausoleum shook noticeably, and the heavy and tall stone door opened.

Then, a huge dark arm stretched out from the stone gate.

The arm was similar in size to the trees on the island, and judging from its color and state, it looked more like part of a shadow. However, it was not a thin layer, but was filled with flesh and blood, making it look extremely strange.

It supported the ground with its elbows and moved forward with difficulty, as if trying to pull out the larger and more terrifying part that followed.

Boom!

The whole island began to shake.

Bang!

The pair of "eyes that could see secrets" that were becoming transparent suddenly shattered.

Bernadette's eyes immediately closed, as if she had seen a bright light that she could not look directly at, or had suffered unbearable harm.

Blood was obviously flowing from the corners of her eyes and her face turned paler.

On her body, pairs of illusory and holy wings spread out, neutralizing some invisible pollution with the falling white feathers.

"As expected, he is capable of fighting. The Emperor's legacy is truly rich... Hehe, before I educated Ms. Hermit, she liked to use the Eye of Peering into the secrets to examine the people and things around her. There must be some family education factor involved... In short, it's all Roselle's fault!" Klein secretly breathed a sigh of relief above the gray fog, and couldn't help but criticize the Emperor in his mind.

Then, his mind raced, analyzing the scene that Bernadette saw in the prophecy:

“After the stone door opened, a terrifying creature seemed to crawl out of the mausoleum.

"This could be the resurrected Roselle, or it could be a symbol of some kind of disaster, such as an Outer God that once invaded this island, or the 'original moon' that quietly polluted Roselle...

"Well, even if it's Roselle, it's definitely not a human figure. It's closer to a mythical creature, closer to a god... In addition, there's no way to be sure whether that horrible creature has reason or can communicate...

"Another important question is, was the stone door opened by Bernadette or someone else, or was it the horrible creature in the mausoleum itself? If it was the latter, even if we did nothing, things could still develop to the point in the prophecy...

"The prophecy is full of ambiguity."

Klein casually materialized a gold coin, flipped it up with a clang, and did a divination.

The results of dream divination showed that the mausoleum was both dangerous and safe.

"How should I interpret this?" Klein turned his attention back to Bernadette while thinking.

It took Bernadette several dozen seconds to recover and no longer look so weak.

However, she couldn't make any specific predictions about what she saw, she could only be sure that the problem was definitely very complicated.

Because the "Eye of Peering into Secrets" was broken, she could no longer use it to see the various secrets. She could only rely on the perception of the "Invisible Servant" to check the basic situation around her.

She found that when Edwards was unable to control the "Invisible Servant", he remained silent and motionless, as if he did not notice anything unusual.

After thinking for a while, Bernadette used the "Invisible Servant" to say to Edwards:

"Do you remember the years you spent in Lenburg?"

Edwards's indifferent light blue eyes moved:

"Remember.

"I seem to..."

Having said this, he seemed to remember something, and his expression suddenly twisted, as if he was suffering from some unspeakable pain.

In this state, his eyes suddenly glowed with a strange light:

"I seem to be dead..."


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