Chapter 675

Chapter 60: Going in Opposite Directions – Part Two

I was startled, my eyes widening abruptly.

This couldn’t be possible.

The dancer can’t die.

Carlos is trying to deceive me, wanting to see my subconscious reaction.

In the dim light, the lamp on the table was almost out of oil, casting a faint glow that flickered across the man’s face. He had a slight hint of alcohol on him, his eyes fixed intently on my face.

He is indeed observing me…

My heart stirred slightly, and in that instant, several thoughts flashed through my mind. I quickly regained my composure, crossing my arms over my chest, leaning back in the chair, my gaze flickering.

No, this isn’t right…

What he said could be true.

That woman…

Facing such a powerful divine body, being hit head-on by a beam of light that could destroy the world, she didn’t die even after being reduced to that state. She recovered from her injuries quickly and escaped from Longxiang, even rescuing me to Dongzhou…

She is so strong it’s unbelievable. Even at the peak of my strength, I wasn’t confident enough to say I could defeat her, let alone kill her. How could she die so easily here…

That’s what I thought, but after the initial shock, I saw Carlos’ slightly serious expression, which didn’t seem like he was lying. I calmed down, took a deep breath, and my emotions settled.

Only then did I suddenly realize—

What he said might be true.

After all…

There was that Sword Saint.

He, Carlos, and the fatty grandmother were three people. They weren’t wandering bards of the choir, those black-robed people who wouldn’t show their faces, nor were they some miscellaneous doctors or bishops whose names hadn’t been heard of.

They were real, powerful Grand Master Knights with the highest human combat standards. The old gentleman was even considered the strongest Grand Master Knight now, unmatched for decades…

Alright, I’m not sure how formidable the fatty grandmother is, but if the Sword Saint could invite her over, she mustn’t be an ordinary person.

I once heard about the fatty grandmother’s past from Grandma Bertha. Although I couldn’t imagine what she looked like when she was young and outstanding, even though she is now fat, old, and no longer as agile as before, her talent with Order Power remains there, and her strength would not be weak.

If these three formidable individuals joined forces and attacked a single person…

What would the situation be like?

Even that dancer…

It’s not impossible for her to lose.

It’s not impossible…

No wonder…

She never returned to the town…

“We still couldn’t capture her alive.”

Carlos kept staring at me, his frost-blue eyes as if trying to read my thoughts completely: “And that woman, in the end, didn’t escape from our hands… Perhaps she had her own plans, but she was cut into pieces by the teacher’s sword aura, scattered among the ruins of sand, buried under the sand…”

She died…

Torn into pieces…

…No.

Maybe she’s still alive.

I remained silent, not eating anything, looking straight into the man’s eyes, my face calm.

“The aftermath of the battle destroyed many ruins. Later, we searched and examined the woman’s… remains, and unexpectedly found something interesting in one of the ruins. Those things also happened to verify some of the words she said before she died…”

Carlos continued, taking another large gulp of wine.

He didn’t seem to be savoring the taste of the wine; it was completely different from Victoria’s elegant way of appreciating fine wine.

As the man had just admitted himself, he didn’t like the taste of wine. Even the best wine tasted bad to him. At this moment, drinking the strong liquor in large gulps seemed more like he wanted to suppress some kind of emotion that was almost unbearable.

Or perhaps…

He was trying to indulge in that emotion.

“It was a strange spherical object, about the size of a human head, hollow, made entirely of metal, crafted with exquisite precision. It didn’t look like something from Dongzhou, or even… something humans would make.”

“That thing was originally placed underground in the ruins, in some secret cellar altar, but was affected by our battle… The sand collapsed, the cellar was destroyed, and the altar was smashed into pieces, barely recognizable. When we found the sphere, it was already open, and inside… there should have been something

, it was empty, nothing there.”

The man’s eyelids drooped. After a few gulps of strong liquor, that lazy, decadent vibe returned to him: “Little Xeril…”

“Can you guess what was originally inside?”

—It was the soul!

I realized it in an instant.

Sha Gu, the ruins… In the notes I found in the cellar, Elma mentioned that the soul seemed to be hidden near the entrance of Sha Gu. That woman had obviously led them there on purpose, just so they would discover what was there and realize that the soul had disappeared…

Where did the soul go!?

I was shocked internally, but kept a calm demeanor on my face. I wasn’t sure what Carlos was thinking at this moment, so I didn’t say anything to him.

Carlos stared at me for a while and then laughed.

“Tsk…”

That laugh was harsh, as if tinged with mockery: “How… not even a word you want to say to me? You must have something to ask, right?”

“…”

I was silent for a moment, my thoughts racing. Then I slowly spoke: “Why, after that… didn’t you return to the town.”

In fact, this sentence already conveyed a lot of information.

How smart Carlos was; he was slightly stunned but immediately understood.

“Afterwards…”

The effect of alcohol made his stubbled face flush red under the firelight, his eyes suddenly becoming somewhat dazed: “Afterwards, I realized that only I… was the most ignorant fool who knew nothing… You think so too, don’t you, Little Xeril…”

The man’s thoughts seemed somewhat disordered, his pupils trembling, his speech slightly losing its logic: “Before she died, that woman told us some unbelievable things. I still doubt how much truth her words hold… because those words, I had never heard before, never anticipated, not even considered… Do you believe it…?”

“She told us about the other side of the war in West Continent… about how the Church persecuted the gods, trying to窥探神力, causing the gods to go mad and unleash their wrath… She also told me that you were actually killed by the Pope… by a man named Angel. She was there at the time, witnessing everything… ”

He smiled brilliantly.

But in that smile lay a deep, helpless, and melancholy negative emotion.

That emotion truly stabbed my heart at this moment.

“She told us the truth about the gods, the real history hidden by the Church… I had never heard such things before… Even before this, I didn’t quite believe that there were really gods in this world…”

“I didn’t want to believe it, but somehow, I didn’t doubt a single word she said… because… everything seemed to fit… If what she said was true, then everything… seemed to make sense… I hadn’t noticed any of this before… all along…”

He paused for a moment, then abruptly changed the subject: “But… my teacher, he knew all of this.”

Gulp, gulp…

The man raised his head and drank several large mouthfuls of wine, the fierce alcohol making him cough violently: “Cough, cough… My teacher, Sir Ryan, the Sword Saint. The person I respected the most, he actually… knew all of this from the beginning. He knew what we were doing, and what the Church was doing. When he wrote that summons letter to me, he already knew what was going to happen in West Continent…”

“He knew everything, and might even know… what your existence means. This was something the teacher admitted to me after that woman died… But before that, he never told me anything… Little Xeril, what I’m saying… including the identity of that woman, you… already knew it a long time ago, right?”

“…”

I still didn’t speak.

Not because I didn’t want to, but because at this moment, I really didn’t know what to say.

Not knowing what to say…

would make him feel better…

“Haha… Hahaha…”

Carlos kept laughing: “After that, I left. With the teacher… and Aprile, we went our separate ways… Actually, we did return to that town, but we did nothing, no longer feeling like we needed to do anything. We brought Lea… and came here.”