Chapter 551
This eased some of Shaer’s anxiety... Keleisi seemed quite easy to talk to, and she appeared perfectly normal.
However, Shaer also noticed something unusual... Keleisi’s backlash from her potions.
This was a common issue for those at the fourth tier, and it usually began to show signs at the third tier. Yet, Keleisi’s backlash seemed minimal; Shaer hadn’t even noticed it at first.
Her skin tone was not dark.
On the contrary, her skin was very pale, especially when her fingers bent, revealing the white skin stretched over her bones.
The reason her skin appeared slightly darker than wheat was due to her blood and flesh.
Keleisi’s flesh beneath the skin was likely no longer the normal red of a human.
However... normally, if the skin is white and the blood is dark, the symptoms should resemble those of a poisoned corpse...
At this moment, the maids had all withdrawn, leaving only Shaer and Keleisi in the dining room.
“Are you concerned about this?” Keleisi raised her right hand, turning her palm towards Shaer, and gently tugged at her own skin with her left hand.
Her skin stretched like a rubber band losing its tension, revealing a thin layer that could almost cover half her face. Through that gossamer-thin skin, Shaer could see the deep red, nearly black muscle beneath.
*Slap—*
Keleisi released her grip, and her skin snapped back to her arm, sending ripples across the surface before gradually settling down.
“When I was a ‘Reverse Fate Bearer,’ these changes had already begun within me,” Keleisi said with a hint of relief. “Fortunately, after advancing to ‘Wall Breaker,’ the situation didn’t worsen.”
Reverse Fate... Wall Breaker... It was similar to what Shaer had guessed; the subsequent paths of “Adventurers” were all related to defying fate.
“This is my first time seeing a fourth-tier ‘Adventurer,’” Shaer stated frankly.
“First time?” Keleisi blinked in surprise. She picked up the wine glass in front of her and took a small sip. After setting it down, she smiled and shook her head. “To be honest, I was a bit anxious before coming here.”
“Anxious?” Shaer asked. “Why?”
Shaer felt he was far more anxious than she was.
“I didn’t expect you to be so easy to talk to,” Keleisi said with a smile. “I thought this meeting would be... more serious and formal.”
“I’m not really fond of serious and formal occasions,” Shaer replied, shaking his head. “This is just fine.”
“Indeed...”
At this moment, Shaer began to feel a twinge of doubt.
Was Keleisi being a bit too respectful towards him?
She hadn’t been his nemesis, nor did they have any vested interests. The chaos of salvation and joy wouldn’t affect Dedun’s ability to profit from casinos and auctions worldwide.
Was it just for the casino license in the colonies?
Such matters shouldn’t warrant the president of the Dedun Group bowing and scraping to him. To put it plainly, opening more casinos would only mean Keleisi could earn a bit more money; not opening them wouldn’t affect her at all...
On the contrary, it was he who needed something from her... After all, Shaer was genuinely curious about that classified information.
Now, it was time to get to the point.
Shaer wanted to see what was really going on with her.
“Let’s talk about the deal,” Shaer said, his gaze drifting past the delicious dishes on the table to Keleisi sitting across from him.
“Deal?” Keleisi paused for a moment, then shook her head repeatedly. “Isn’t the deal already in progress? ...Lord Shaer—may I call you that?”
“Or should I address you directly as...”
“‘Sadana’?”
Sadana?
The moment that word appeared, Shaer felt his heart skip a beat.
But Keleisi seemed oblivious to Shaer’s reaction, continuing to speak animatedly. “I’ve made everything you wanted to do smooth and unobstructed, of course, most of this is thanks to your own great power...”
Keleisi kept talking, but the more Shaer listened, the more he felt cold sweat trickling down his back.
What she was saying made it seem as if she had truly communicated with “Sadana,” yet she clearly bore no “Sadana Mark.” Otherwise, Tara would have identified her long ago.
She was not a follower of Sadana...
But she had communicated with an entity claiming to be “Sadana”...
Sadana actually existed?
Wasn’t He supposed to be a fictional deity? Wasn’t He supposed to be asleep?
If Sadana was truly awake, wouldn’t He be able to intervene in others’ visions just like Shaer could contact Xiao Zuo and the Pure White Knight through the Mark of Sadana?
“Lord Shaer? Lord Shaer?”
Noticing that Shaer wasn’t paying attention, Keleisi tentatively called out a couple of times before shaking her head and smiling. “To be honest, I was a bit surprised to learn that you really have a physical form walking the earth. But it’s not hard to investigate; you just need to know who the Salvation and Holy Orders are currently obeying...”
“By the way, about the ‘uniqueness’ you promised...”
Keleisi’s expression suddenly froze. She looked up in surprise, glancing around as if she had heard something.
Gradually, her expression shifted to one of shock, followed by panic. She suddenly turned to Shaer, her pupils trembling violently.
“You... are not Sadana...” Keleisi sprang to her feet, her sudden movement causing the dining table to jolt, knocking over the wine glass and soaking the tablecloth.
The flesh beneath Keleisi’s skin began to swell with blood, black, thread-like muscles bursting forth from her skin, spreading outwards. A pair of black, blood-vein-like bat wings unfurled from her back, and even her face was covered in sticky blood threads... like a demon from the abyss.
Suddenly, the black blood threads on Keleisi’s face parted, revealing a massive, pale blue eye that rotated within, its deep black slit pupil fixated on Shaer.
This pupil, combined with the black bat wings behind her, reminded Shaer of the eye demon on the lucky coin.
“You have some nerve... daring to usurp the authority of the Transcendent!” Keleisi’s voice began to grow indistinct.
In the next moment, Shaer’s “Precognitive Vision” predicted a scene 1.5 seconds into the future...
A pair of pitch-black hands with sharp claws pierced through his brain, splattering his thoughts—
In an instant!
Shaer’s right eye switched to a silver dial in the blink of an eye. He heard a crisp “click” in his mind; “Echo of Time” had activated!
One second passed... two seconds passed...
Shaer simply watched Keleisi in front of him, but she made no move at all; she didn’t even attempt to attack!
Or rather... she must have realized in that brief moment that her attack would have no effect... it wouldn’t change Shaer’s fate at all!
She was stalling for time!
The moment Shaer realized this, he understood that if this simulation was to continue, he had to take action.
With a flash of silver light, a gunblade appeared in Shaer’s hand.
But just as Shaer raised the gunblade to aim at Keleisi, he sensed something was off.
At that moment, the blood threads on Keleisi’s chest swirled like a vortex, as if...
As if it were a blood-red vortex conjured by a spiritual summoning...
It was that pendant with the aura of the other realm!
*Click—*
Shaer’s deadly blood roland was instantly pushed beyond its limits, and visible cracks appeared on the gunblade as she quickly pulled the trigger.
*Boom—*
A bullet, wrapped in brilliant silver flames, shot towards Keleisi.
Beyond limits!
Head Hunter!
The bullet whistled through the air, aiming for Keleisi’s head, but in the next second, a hand burst forth from Keleisi’s chest—
*Click—*
Gently, it grasped the seed bullet and crushed it.
Silver shards fell like rain before Keleisi.
That twisted arm, now completely a mosaic in front of Shaer, pressed against the dining table.
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