Amid Miss Justice's greeting, The Hermit
She watched as Miss Justice and Miss Magician each took out Roselle's diary to repay their previously accumulated debts, and then, not daring to look directly, carefully glanced at Mr. Fool, but still couldn't see more through that strange gray fog; her deep purple eyes could only reflect clothing that was undoubtedly materialized.
Holding those three pages of Roselle's diary, Klein didn't impatiently read as usual. After all, he had already touched and used a Grade 0 Sealed Artefact, seen what the "Uniqueness" of a Beyonder pathway looked like, and effectively intimidated that divine artifact, believing that no matter what Emperor Roselle wrote, it would hardly shock him greatly.
"Unless he was given a 'Witch's Blessing' by powerful beings with unique abilities, temporarily becoming a woman..." Klein joked to himself, and looked around the bronze long table with interest.
Hmm, The Hermit's curiosity is different from Miss Justice and the others? She seems to attach special importance to Roselle's diary? Klein withdrew his gaze, noted this observation, and casually began to read the yellowish-brown parchment in his hand:
"April 22. We are preparing to enter there and explore the Abyss."
"April 23. We sailed along the pitch-black ocean, penetrated the liquid-like fog, and reached that mountain like a monster, behind which stretches an endless black fog, as if covering a continent.
But if you look at the base of the mountain, it seems bottomless, limitless. I joked to
Seeing this, Klein nearly raised his eyebrow, unable to believe that Roselle, upon seeing the Abyss, dared to organize his knights and sailors to explore the border area.
"Wasn't he afraid of death? It's rumored that this place corrodes everything and corrupts all living beings! At this stage, Roselle certainly hadn't reached Sequence 4, he wasn't a demigod, at most Sequence 5, maybe even less... If it were me, I would have immediately turned the ship around and reported to the church..." At that moment, Klein once again deeply realized how huge the gap between him and Roselle was.
In addition, Roselle's description of the border of the "Abyss" reminded Klein of the mysterious stone door in
I wonder what Roselle found there... At least he didn't die from this exploration and lived a brilliant life afterwards... Klein lowered his gaze and read the rest of this page of the diary:
"April 24. We descended along the mountain, trying to go deeper.
That black thick fog was cold and slippery, as if it could soak through flesh and soul. Haha, fortunately, some items on the 'Black Throne' could effectively resist this corrosion, otherwise I suspect that I and my Apocalypse Knights would have become members of a French dance group. (Note 1)
It was very quiet here, and we found nothing."
"April 25. We saw demons, but only their rotting corpses remained.
Behind the rugged black rocks, under the mud that could hardly be called a road, in various normal and unimaginable places, there were different demon corpses.
They seemed to have met the same death at the same moment."
"April 26. Either corpses or silence, ahead there is no end.
The items on the 'Black Throne' began to show signs of corrosion.
In recent years, I have rarely felt fear, but here, the unknown fear was like an invisible hand tightly squeezing my heart.
Must leave! Must return! Can't stay any longer!"
What happened next? Did Emperor Roselle escape the border of the Abyss smoothly, or did he encounter something else? What does the anomaly there signify? A fierce battle? Klein flipped to the second page with subconscious anticipation, and regretfully found no connection to the previous:
"May 8. My dear Bernadette is almost two years old. She becomes more and more adorable. She is indeed a little girl who inherited excellent genes from me and her mother.
Listening to her crisp call of daddy, watching her lively figure, I suddenly felt a sense of satisfaction.
Since traveling to this world, I have done many things, some of which could be considered shameful, but I am not ashamed nor do I regret them. On the one hand, because I am a person who has difficulty restraining my desires and is easily influenced by the surrounding environment. Hehe, I must thank fate that I have never encountered an 'Apostle of Desire' of the 'Demon' pathway; otherwise, according to the records, I would be strongly suppressed by the Beyonder of that Sequence, and might even be instantly killed.
On the other hand, I still feel a sense of alienation from this world. My parents in this life have been good to me, and I have tried to make them proud, but I know that my feelings for them are weak, and the same goes for my feelings for Matilda—possessiveness more than affection.
I have to admit that my mentality is like playing a virtual reality role-playing game: parents, wife, brothers, friends are all NPCs. I can invest a little emotion, but not truly take them to heart. Therefore, I can attend various depraved gatherings without guilt, and coldly deal with former acquaintances, just like when I used to play 'The Elder Scrolls' and would slaughter an entire village for a chicken.
But after Bernadette was born, I found that I have a greater sense of belonging to this world, and the alienation has diminished.
This is my child, a living child.
Maybe this is what is called maturity?"
No children, I can't understand this feeling. No, I don't even have a girlfriend... But the attitude mentioned by the Emperor in this diary, I must also be wary... What doesn't exist now doesn't mean it won't appear in the future; the higher the Sequence, the more divinity and less humanity... Klein silently sighed a couple of times and turned to the third page of the diary.