Chapter 555
Adele's expression was focused as she inserted the tweezers into the glass cup, and soon a layer of pale blue frost covered the metallic tips.
Then, she gently brought the frosted tweezers toward Keleisi's eyeball. This time, when the tweezers made contact, there was no discharge of pus.
Before long, two eyeballs, exuding a chilling aura, were extracted by Adele and placed onto a plate that Aivina had prepared in advance.
The eyeballs floated in a pale blue liquid, emitting a white mist.
Under the corrosive effect of the liquid, the original structure of the eyeballs began to dissolve rapidly. At that moment, Aivina stepped forward, took out a small knife, and sliced her thumb.
A drop of blood oozed from her thumb, and Aivina's eyes shimmered with a faint purple glow. She raised her hand and began to draw strange linking runes in the space between the plate and Keleisi's brain.
The blood-red runes connected the brain to the plate. As the liquid continued to corrode, the entire structure of the eyeballs collapsed, and the murky vitreous humor turned the entire plate's liquid cloudy.
The solution clinging to the plate began to move against gravity, inching toward the edges of the plate, following the path of the blood-drawn runes until it was fully connected to Keleisi's brain.
The once-silent brain of Keleisi began to throb again, as if it had been given new life.
"Is it... resurrected?" Adele was momentarily stunned by the scene before her.
Though she had heard that the "Newborn" had methods to reactivate the brains of the brain-dead, she had never witnessed it firsthand—especially not from a "Soulwalker."
"No..." Aivina shook her head, looking at Shaer, and asked, "Do you want to see her memories yourself?"
"Yes," Shaer nodded.
Among everyone present, she had the highest resistance to the Otherworld, and probing into Keleisi's memories could potentially touch upon that realm, so it had to be Shaer who did it.
"Are you ready?" Aivina asked.
"Mm." Shaer nodded and took two steps forward to stand beside Aivina.
As they both focused, suddenly, a faint ringing filled Shaer's ears, and everything before her began to blur.
At that moment, the images in Shaer's eyes started to dim, while Aivina's body seemed to be surrounded by a few halos, appearing exceptionally bright in this strange vision.
Aivina didn't speak, but her voice echoed in Shaer's mind.
"I'll connect you to her subconscious. Her brain won't hold out for long; time is limited," Aivina said, looking directly at Shaer. "If any danger arises, I'll sever the link immediately."
Shaer couldn't nod or speak, but Aivina seemed to understand her response and gently nodded.
Aivina raised her hand slightly, palm down, hovering above Keleisi's head. With a grasping motion in the air, Keleisi's brain suddenly ignited in purple flames, slowly melting away.
At the same time, Shaer felt the gas lamps around them flickering, and everything before her grew dim. The vascular patterns from the plate projected onto the surrounding walls, transforming the entire room into a blood-soaked cathedral of flesh and neural connections, with Shaer standing at the center altar formed by the giant brain.
Zzzz—
Before Shaer, a phantom flickered—Keleisi's projection.
At that moment, Keleisi was slowly walking toward Shaer, but Shaer couldn't move, passively watching as Keleisi drew closer until she stood right in front of Shaer, her head severed, her eyeballs fallen out, and countless blood vessels protruding from her dark, bloodshot eyes, directly piercing into Shaer's own.
Shaer's consciousness plunged into a brief darkness.
Meanwhile, from the perspective of the others beside Shaer, she stood there, motionless, with thin, almost invisible blood vessels connecting her eyeballs to the brain that burned like a wax candle.
...
Falling...
In a pitch-black world, Shaer felt the sensation of continuously descending.
She maintained her thoughts, though they held little substantial meaning; it was more about preserving her "self."
After an indeterminate amount of time, the darkness before Shaer finally tore open a crack, and she found herself standing in a dark starry sky.
Purple mist swirled around her, and before her lay a vast array of interconnected orbs of different colors.
This situation... Shaer had encountered before.
During a previous spiritual summoning, she had summoned a creature from the Otherworld that wielded the same ability.
That creature had led Shaer into the memory of the "Touch of Fate's Betrayal," the very feather pen.
Observing the sprawling orbs before her, Shaer, with her prior experience, quickly identified the blue, white, and orange orbs. Without hesitation, she propelled her consciousness forward, searching for the orb with a higher proportion of orange.
Finally, she stopped in front of an orb that was almost sixty percent orange, raising her hand to touch it.
The orb burst, releasing a blinding light that enveloped everything before Shaer.
A blurry image appeared in her vision.
Once again unable to control her body, Shaer's gaze followed a primary perspective as it began to move.
It seemed to be a spacious office, with a beautifully crafted hollow metal box sitting on the desk.
Inside the box, an object radiated a red glow, the light shining through the hollow gaps of the metal box, forming the religious symbol of the Holy Ascendancy.
Shaer felt herself slowly raise her hand, casually opening the metal box and retrieving its contents.
It was the red crystal... a complete red gem mounted on a pedestal, emanating a scarlet glow.
Was this the scene when Keleisi first obtained this crystal?
In Shaer's view, Keleisi casually pulled out a die and rolled it on the table, the final number showing one.
"Oh?"
A somewhat flippant and curious voice escaped from "Shaer."
The general tendency of a "gambler" is to seek profit and avoid harm; if the die "foretold" that it was unwise to go out, they would likely refrain from doing so unless the potential gain was too great to resist.
In contrast, "adventurers" are the opposite; they are a group unwilling to be bound by fate, disregarding profit and loss, treating the defiance of destiny as their own fate.
Under Shaer's gaze, her hands reached forward, fingers grasping the red crystal, slowly twisting it as if to pull it from its pedestal.
Buzz—
A terrifying hum suddenly erupted in her mind, and Keleisi abruptly looked up, seeing a blood-red figure standing before her.
That figure seemed to distort everything around it merely by existing. It slowly turned, its crimson eyes locking onto Keleisi.
The figure twisted, as if invisible flames were expanding wildly. In a flash, it teleported right in front of Keleisi, almost pressing against her face.
"Shaer..."
A voice filled with terrifying echoes and whispers exploded in Shaer's mind, and the next moment, that sensation of falling returned.
...
"Hah—"
Shaer suddenly opened her eyes, gasping for breath, her gaze locking onto Aivina.
"There was danger just now..." Aivina looked at Shaer and said, "I pulled you out."
"Okay." Shaer's gaze shifted to the brain that had burned away a small portion, and she said, "Continue."
Aivina seemed to want to say something more, but seeing the look in Shaer's eyes, she swallowed her words of caution.
Aivina's eyes glowed with a faint purple light again, and Shaer plunged back into the abyss.
This time, amidst a path of light, Shaer focused on the orb behind the orange one, quickly stopping at an orb that was almost ninety percent blue.
Previously, when she had probed the memory of the feather pen, she had also entered a deep blue orb.
Inside that orb, Shaer had experienced the perspective of the feather pen, witnessing its first awakening—its first moment of life, filled with curiosity about everything around it.
Blue signified transformation—this was Shaer's deduction.
The orange orb clearly represented the memory of conversing with Sadana, embodying an indescribable power.
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