Chapter 761: Sheva
Chapter 761: Sheva
A Late Arrival...
As Lyon stared intently at the unconscious black-haired woman, questioning her authenticity, the Aquarius Director by his side gazed at the desolate and chaotic Earth Core, filled with scattered stones and stalactite fragments, and sighed with a hint of melancholy.
The Bureau's means of sealing the Marrow Realm, the Ocean of Tranquil Stones, had been destroyed. It seemed they had no choice but to confront the Earth Tribes directly, all because of those two damned members of the Carnage King Society!
When he turned his gaze, filled with murderous intent, towards Crow and his companion, and saw the familiar face in the hands of the fake Snow Miser, his anger surged, and thick blood vessels rose in his eyes.
Even at this moment, they were still using Sheva's illusion to provoke me?
Recalling the previous ambush due to Sheva's illusion, which had allowed their opponents to hold them back, preventing them from stopping the destruction of the Ocean of Tranquil Stones, Aquarius couldn't help but interfere. He forcefully clenched his hand, aiming at the distant fake Snow Miser from hundreds of meters away.
Crack!
In the fearful gaze of the fake Snow Miser and the real Crow, the small world around them seemed to be squeezed and solidified uncontrollably at that very moment.
The surrounding space, which had been freely traversable, began to transform like clay fired into a ceramic vessel, changing from "porous" to "smooth and hard." It started to compress and shrink towards the center.
Even the air inhaled into their lungs became heavy and dense, carrying a pungent earthy smell that entered through their nostrils, easily tearing their nasal cavities and throat, swelling and rupturing the blood vessels and alveoli in their lungs, and quickly spreading throughout their bodies through their bloodstream...
"Wait!"
Having witnessed something peculiar through the soul vision of the Black Goat, Lyon hurriedly reached out and pushed Aquarius's arm, which was frighteningly heavy, aside a little.
With Lyon's interference, Aquarius's aim was slightly affected. When his hand, marked with age spots, clenched tightly, it didn't fully encompass Crow and his companion. Instead, it shifted to the side, aiming at the bubbling lava pool behind Crow.
"Ding!"
A crisp and peculiar ringing sound echoed as the lava pool, targeted by the blue-haired elder's hand, was compressed a thousandfold in an instant.
The bright red lava, mixed with iron water and undissolved stalactite fragments, along with the dark ebony stone walls of the lava pool, were all squeezed into a hunched-over elderly statue, which plopped into the unaffected lava below.
...
[Name: Mudsculpting Hand (Sculpting)]
[Appearance: An elderly hand, devoid of all palm lines, with mud-stained nail beds and slightly oily fingertips.]
[Ability: Sculpting with Mud]
[Cost: Permanent loss of partial tactile sensation.]
[File: One hundred and two years ago, in the western mountain tribes of the Northern Kingdom, dozens of disappearances occurred simultaneously, and a large number of intricately sculpted mud figures made from the flesh and blood of an unknown creature were found.
Bartholomew Higgins, a third-level cleaner of the Aquarius Bureau, took on the task with his brother, bringing the flesh-and-blood mud figures collected in Hot River City to investigate the western mountains...]
[Evaluation: An ordinary anomaly, easily driven by a third-level cleaner. However, when it is worn on the wrist of a Zodiac Bureau Chief and paired with a suitable auxiliary anomaly, it becomes a formidable force capable of challenging a True God.]
【Impregnation Value: 8.1】
Wow... Does that mean if I hadn't stopped him, those two True Gods of the Carnage King Society might have been crushed to death by him?
After examining the hand of the Water Bottle Director, who was astonished by the abnormality, and seeing the blood oozing from the seven orifices while mud was constantly gushing out, leaving the Snow Miser barely clinging to life, the Water Bottle Director nodded slightly and said:
"Hold on, there's something odd about that woman..."
"She's Sheva, a former First-Level Purifier of the Aquarius Bureau, and... and Melly and Harvey's mother. But..."
But she died ten years ago on a mission?
After confirming his suspicions through the Water Bottle Director's response, Lyon briefly pondered, then reached out and wiped away the small window on the snake bracelet, asking the Water Bottle Director:
"May I ask, how did Ms. Sheva... Aunt Sheva die?"
"Sheva... When I was assigned to the Earth Core to seal the Marrow Realm, she was in charge of dealing with the Sea Tribe members attempting to detonate the stone. She sacrificed herself during that mission and should have died somewhere beneath the Hexagonal Snow Mountain."
Should have? Somewhere?
At this point, Lyon, almost explicitly asking, widened his eyes in response to the Water Bottle Director's question. He couldn't help but glance at the distant unconscious black-haired woman, but soon shook his head in dismay.
"Impossible. In our Aquarius Bureau's basement, there's a soul plate. Once a name is engraved on it, it forms a secret connection with the soul. If the corresponding soul perishes in this world, the name engraved on the soul plate will disappear simultaneously. As for Sheva..."
"The disappearance of the soul doesn't necessarily mean death; it could also be that she was consumed... I mean, captured or imprisoned."
With the help of the Black Goat's soul vision, Lyon, who was extremely experienced and authoritative when it came to consuming souls, spoke up after observing the peculiar soul state of the black-haired woman:
"The harmony between her soul and body is remarkable, and there aren't many traces of Pseudohallucination abilities on her body. I suspect she didn't die ten years ago, or if she did, someone from the Carnage King Society revived her."
can't afford to shoot blindly. But if I had killed the real Sheva, my Heart Lake, which hasn't fully recovered yet, might have collapsed!"
And the consequences of emotional collapse in front of the Heart Lake Deity...
(End of Chapter)
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