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After leaving Backlund, Lin Ruo didn't immediately return to his previous ship. Instead, he first went to Bayam, City of Generosity, and reported the matter of Oravi Island to the Church of the Lord of Storms under the name that "the Mother Tree of Desire is suspected of performing a divine descent ritual on Oravi Island, and the Governor's Mansion has fallen." Then, he used the Church of the Lord of Storms's influence to get the matter to the military.
Because Lin Ruo's current alias within the Church of the Lord of Storms had a high level of credibility, the matter naturally received immediate attention.
Watching the Storm Old Pigeons bustling about, Lin Ruo smiled and politely declined Kottman's invitation for joint action. He then jumped to a Church of the God of Steam and Machinery cathedral in Intis, where he met Bornova, who was waiting for him, and received two mystical items from him—one was the sea god scepter: Brand New Edition, and the other was crafted from a Disaster Archbishop's characteristic.
These were items Lin Ruo had entrusted to Bornova the day before he went to the historical illusion to retrieve Roselle. It proved that Bornova's efficiency was indeed quick, completing them in just three or four days.
So, after Lin Ruo received a letter from Bornova yesterday, he decided to pick up these items himself—he didn't use a messenger mainly because he was afraid of them being stolen by other Spirit World creatures, and Bornova, as a Church Angel, found it inconvenient to travel freely—after all, today was the Tarot Club.
"I won't say thank you; it's too formal. I'll just give you some good news. My trip to retrieve Roselle went very smoothly, or rather, you'll be able to see him before the end of this year. Of course, I can't guarantee his state; perhaps we'll still need to give him a push for him to return to Sequence 0," Lin Ruo said with a smile. The last part wasn't a lie.
He wasn't entirely sure what state Roselle would be in upon his return, as the uniqueness and Sequence 1 characteristics of the Black Emperor Sequence should be in the hands of the Loen Royal Family. If following the normal Black Emperor resurrection process, at the moment Roselle returned, these characteristics and uniqueness should automatically return to Roselle over time.
However, Roselle's situation was special. Lin Ruo could only confirm that Roselle's divine status should still be intact, but he wasn't sure if the other party could still attract characteristics to return to him voluntarily. In fact, Lin Ruo had a vague feeling.
Perhaps they would ultimately need to manually seize the characteristics for Roselle to help him return to Sequence 0.
This seemed to be some kind of price for completely erasing the corruption... Speaking of which, was Roselle really only corrupted by the Mother Tree of Desire? You know, Shub-Niggurath is...
Lin Ruo quickly pulled back his increasingly dangerous thoughts.
"Actually, I'm already very satisfied that Father can be resurrected," Bornova said with a smile. It was clear that he was in a very good mood due to the news Lin Ruo provided. "Let alone needing our help to return to Sequence 0, even if Father truly becomes a Mortal, I will take good care of him."
"Generally speaking, what you just said could be called setting a flag," Lin Ruo said in a half-joking, half-serious tone. After speaking, he thought of something else and said with a bright smile, "Speaking of which, would you like to see your father's Witch form?"
Sharing something like Witch Roselle with others might not be appropriate, but sharing it with Bornova was quite fitting.
"Huh?" Bornova was visibly stunned, then his expression changed continuously, from shock to hesitation. After what was probably an intense ideological struggle, he said, "Uncle Lin Ruo, did you find Father's Card of Blasphemy of the Witch pathway?"
"Hmm, you can think of it that way, so, do you want to see it?" Lin Ruo didn't deny it and said with a smile.
"Yes!" Bornova said very firmly, but after speaking, he added in a very low voice, "But can you keep it a secret? Don't tell Father or my sister. I'm afraid of getting beaten..."
"Of course," Lin Ruo nodded with a slight smile.
So Bornova admired that image of [Witch Roselle] for a full ten minutes.
After Bornova finished admiring it, having conservatively estimated that he had completely imprinted that painting in his mind, and unconservatively estimated that he might have already imagined countless other versions in his head, Lin Ruo then bid him farewell and used Travel to return to Klein's cabin. Lin Ruo then saw Klein staring at the Die of Probability with a solemn expression.
"What's wrong? Is the Die of Probability not behaving?" Lin Ruo asked casually, while opening the box containing the snake Molt.
"It tried to give me a one point as soon as you left," Klein said with a sigh of relief, while casually complaining, "I only got it to behave after scaring it with your name, but I still have to watch it, or else it'll cause trouble."
After speaking, Klein's gaze fell upon the snake Molt in Lin Ruo's hand, and he asked curiously, "Is this Will's snake Molt?"
"Tsk!" Lin Ruo raised an eyebrow, first glancing at the Die of Probability, which was now quiet as a mouse, and his smile brightened a bit. Then he nodded, answering Klein's question: "Yes, using this to store the Die of Probability will ensure it remains in a dormant or quiet state forever."
As he spoke, Lin Ruo's hands were not idle. He picked up the Die of Probability and tossed it, and the latter obediently gave him a six point.
"So, why do you have to cause trouble when you're clearly so cowardly?" Lin Ruo shook his head, wearing an expression of "you're a good person, why be a thief?" After speaking, he neatly tucked the Die of Probability into the snake Molt, connecting the head and tail of the snake Molt to ensure it would work.
Then Lin Ruo tossed the snake Molt to Klein and casually asked, "Where's Danitz?"
"He went back to review his lessons. It seems Edwina assigned him new homework last night during a dream, the kind that will be tested when he returns sometime later," Klein explained, his smile somewhat hard to suppress.
"Oh, dear!" Lin Ruo used two words to express his pity for Danitz, but his schadenfreude smile was not at all hidden.
But after laughing, Lin Ruo suddenly thought of something and looked at Klein, saying, "By the way, have you finished that paper on the history of Spirit World creature changes that I assigned you before I retrieved the Great Emperor?"
The smile on Klein's face instantly froze.
Lin Ruo's gaze immediately sharpened. He looked at Klein, displaying a "teacher disapproves" look, and said, "Klein, don't tell me you haven't written a single word?"
Klein immediately looked away guiltily, then defended himself with insufficient confidence, "I did write a little..."
"How much?" Lin Ruo looked at him with a fake smile.
"Uh, a hundred words..." Klein's voice gradually grew smaller.
"Oh, a hundred words, huh? Not bad..." Lin Ruo's smile brightened a few more points as he looked at him. "Why didn't you just write the title?"
"I'm sorry, I was wrong!" Klein decisively followed his heart's choice.
"Add another thousand words to the essay. I hope to see your completed work before I go retrieve the Great Emperor next time," Teacher Lin calmly pronounced judgment on the slacking student.
To this, Klein, knowing he was in the wrong, naturally did not resist.
In fact, due to his guilt, Klein quickly took out the essay, which had only a hundred words, most of which were introductory phrases, and began to pad it.
Lin Ruo glanced at it twice and wasn't in a hurry to give Klein the newly acquired mystical items. Instead, he simply took out the Gehrman biography and started writing a short essay. The cabin fell silent for a while.
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