Her voice trembled slightly. "I don't have a father who does business. No one will take me back to Backlund. My mother is just a low-class prostitute. I am just a bastard she gave birth to with someone unknown..."
"Everything I have said is just something I made up to deceive you, just to gain a little bit of ridiculous sense of superiority over you..."
"Now... you all know it. ^Jing?Wu?Novel.Net! *choked up and drunk+all*"
There was no expression on Isabella's face, and there was only death in her eyes.
Lilith lowered her head: "I'm sorry..."
"Don't be sorry, this is the punishment for lying to you... If I hadn't lied to you before and often showed off the photos to you, you wouldn't have taken it to heart, and today wouldn't have happened..."
She looked straight at Lilith: "I...should thank you."
Lilith felt even more upset, but she didn't know what to say.
Her little head was in a mess. She suddenly missed Edward very much and wanted him to appear by her side immediately. He would definitely know what to do.
However, she did not ask Phoenix for help after all.
"actually..."
Beetee mustered up the courage to say, "In fact, we already knew that what Isabella said was all false."
Alisa said timidly: "Me... too."
Another boy, Tim, scratched his head.
Isabella was stunned. "So, so you... have been laughing at me all this time? So every time I mentioned Dad and said I would take you back to Backlund, you... have been laughing at me in your heart?"
Alisa yelled, "No!"
She ran over and hugged Isabella, "We know that Isabella made up those things, not for a sense of superiority, but just to give us hope. `小_税′C￠M?S` ~最￠鑫/璋￠踕~更/芯/快*"
"We know that Isabella has been protecting us, and we also want to protect Isabella. We also want to help Isabella realize her wish!"
"Isabella wants to leave Bayam, so we want to help you leave Bayam."
"You want to go to Backlund, and we want to take you to Backlund."
"Together, we work hard on our own and don't rely on others!"
The other two boys also ran over: "Yes!"
"We will definitely fulfill Isabella's wish!"
But Isabella just shook her head and murmured, "...I'm not as good as you say. Everything I do is for myself, so that I won't become like my mother."
"In order to live a more dignified life... I am just using you."
Tim scratched his head and asked, "But, does it make any difference in the outcome?"
Chapter 441 Goodbye, Isabella
"No matter what your original purpose was, it is a fact that you have always been protecting us and taking care of us."
Isabella hung her head: "It's different, it's different."
She suddenly raised her head and looked at Lilith, with a complex light flashing in her pupils: "Lilith...are you really the legendary witch?"
Lilith nodded: "Yes."
"You mentioned before that you can help us realize our wishes. Is that true?"
She nodded hurriedly: "Yes!"
Isabella murmured, "Then... can you turn back time to before today, so that what happened today never happened, you didn't find my 'father', no one knew that I lied, and no one knew the truth, and we were still the same as before..."
"But, you..."
Lilith was a little confused, "Aren't you deceiving yourself?"
"This world is full of lies, and we all live in lies... Just like my mother, she told me that my father was a nobleman from Loen, and that he would come to take us back one day. - First, the book is full of lies.
"She told me that she worked in a noble family, but she was actually selling her body as a prostitute. She worked hard to create a false world for me. It was not until she died and her body was casually thrown back at the door of her house that I learned... the truth of the matter."
"I would rather never know the truth, I hope to live in a false lie forever."
Isabella stared at Lilith, "So, can you help me, Lilith?"
"What about them?"
Lilith looked at the other three children.
"I do! I'd like to stay with Isabella!"
Alisa took the lead and said seriously.
Beetee and Tim nodded, "Us too."
"We also want to know nothing, we just want to be the same as before..."
Lilith was at a loss, she really couldn't understand their thoughts.
Why do some people want to live in a false world in order to avoid facing reality?
Why did Isabella care about the lies she told when no one else cared?
Why would others be willing to accompany Isabella?
Lilith didn't understand, and couldn't figure it out. She looked at the children intently and asked, "Do you... really think so?"
"right!"
"We are so used to living together that we don't want to be separated from each other."
"This world is hard enough. If telling a few lies can give us a little more hope for the future, wouldn't that be great?"
"I... don't want Isabella to be unhappy."
"…"
Lilith clenched her fingers tightly around the wand, "I...I don't have the ability to turn back time."
The light in Isabella's eyes dimmed a little.
"but..."
Lilith walked towards the ruins of the broken house, "I can try to fulfill your wish."
She gently waved her wand and chanted the spell: "Restored to its original state."
The next second, the rubble that had collapsed into ruins flew up from the ground again as if time had gone back, and then quickly pieced together.
This scene, not to mention the four children, even Mr. Harry the owl was shocked: "This is unscientific!"
Not long after, the ruins disappeared and the collapsed house returned to its previous appearance, as if the previous collapse had never happened.
Lilith turned around and looked at the dazed children. "I can't turn back time, but I can... make you forget everything that happened today..."
"May I?"
Isabella was stunned: "Okay!"
Other children: "Okay!"
Lilith clenched her wand and said blankly, "In this way... can you really be happier?"
"Oblivion is all!"
A white spell shot out from the wand, hitting Alisa, Beetee and Tim in turn, erasing their memories of the past few days.
The last one is Isabella.
"I'm sorry, Isabella."
Lilith apologized quietly once again, "Goodbye, Isabella."
The white light lit up again and was reflected in Isabella's eyes. Her eyes quickly became blurred and dazed, and her body softened and she fell to the ground.
Lilith let out a breath, looked at the four children again, turned around and walked away.
"Hello!"
At this moment, Isabella's voice suddenly came: "Who are you looking for?"
"I'm not looking for anyone~ I'm just passing by."
Lilith turned around and said something, quickening her pace.
Isabella chased after him and shouted, "Hey! If... you're in trouble,
You can come find us here~"
"good."
"You must come~"
No, Miss Lilith will hurt you - although that's not what I meant.
She suddenly remembered what Edward and Audrey had said in their conversation:
The witch's path will eventually be accompanied by disasters and misfortunes.
For a moment, I began to feel confused.
Quietly, Lilith's potion was largely digested.
...
After getting away from Isabella and the others, Lilith walked aimlessly on the crimson-stained streets.
Mr. Harry followed closely, trying to figure out how to get the dice back.
"Hey, what's a whore? Why does Isabetha get so... so sad when she says her mother is a whore?"
"Well, this..."
Mr. Harry thought for a moment and said, "It is a very bad... profession. No, it is not a profession because most of them are forced to do this. It is a very bad thing that some poor people are forced to do by some bad people."
"Then let's go kill those bad guys, then can we save those... prostitutes?"
"Ah? But this kind of thing...can't be solved by killing a few people. As long as there is profit, there will always be people doing this. It's a kind of...a kind of...anyway, it's very difficult to solve."
Although Mr. Harry knew a lot, it had only been an extraordinary creature for a short time, so he was a little stuck when talking about this.
"But there will always be someone who will do it! As long as... as long as there are bad guys who dare to do this again, we will keep killing them until they no longer dare to do it..8*6-ka,n~sh*u*.′c\om¨"
Mr. Harry felt the murderous aura coming from her and shrank his head: "Maybe... this can also be considered a method?"
Lilith suddenly stopped and pouted: "I miss Edward!"
"Phoenix, I want to go back to Edward!"
Phoenix did not respond.
Mr. Harry was a little confused: Are you... talking to me? But my name is Mr. Harry.
"Huh?"
Lilith was a little puzzled. "Could it be that Edward had called her away to deliver a letter?"
"Hello!"
At this time, a gentle voice came, "Did you take my necklace?"
Mr. Harry the owl immediately flew up into the sky, shouting, "Danger! Danger! Danger! Run away! Run away!"
I knew it! I knew why the dice suddenly became so "friendly", it just wanted to hold on to a big one! I bet it must have rolled a 1 now!
Under the crimson moonlight, a girl in a home dress slowly approached. It was Cynthia, Amyrius' mistress.
There was confusion and anger in her eyes: "Did you take my necklace?!"
Although Lilith didn't know what this woman meant, she still tensed up at the first moment.
"It's you! You took my necklace?!"
Her voice suddenly became louder, "Give me back my necklace!!"
She suddenly stretched out her hand, and her pure white palm suddenly turned into a brown branch with a slimy flower on the top, which opened to reveal a mouth full of sharp teeth.
Lilith immediately released a string of black flame bullets at the branch. The moment the black flame touched the branch, it began to burn violently.
"ah!!"
The girl screamed, and she quickly cut off the part that was on fire, and retracted the arm that had turned into a branch.
"Give me back... the necklace... I want to have... a child... with the General."
Her body began to twist and swell, and the outer layer of clothes collapsed, revealing a white body with brown-green tumors like tree knots. Some of the tumors quickly split and turned into flower-like organs.
Her stature grew taller, and brown branches grew from her body, with flowers with sharp teeth blooming out of them.
whoosh!
Something broke out of the ground under Lilith's feet. It was another brown branch with a sticky flower on the top. It opened its mouth wide and bit towards her fiercely.
Lilith quickly dodged with the help of the moonlight, and at the same time used black flames and freezing abilities to attack the huge "tree monster" again.
"Big Bird! Phoenix, come and help!"
Facing Lilith's call for help, Phoenix just stood on a tree branch not far away, watching quietly, with no intention of intervening to help.
If birds could sweat, it would be sweating profusely now.
It wasn't that it didn't want to help Lilith, nor that it didn't want to inform Edward, but that it was completely unable to move now - it was being targeted by a terrifying woman who suddenly appeared.
...
Olawei Island.
Not far from the stone bridge where Rejord of the Life Cult lived, three figures appeared.
Fat pharmacist Darkwill looked at the suddenly changing environment in front of him and was still a little confused for a moment.
I was clearly in the dungeon of the Governor's Mansion just now, but a man suddenly appeared in front of me, and then in a few seconds I came to an unfamiliar room.
Compared to his disciples, Roy King was much calmer and thanked: "Thank you for your help. *Please help! ^The latest news has been published."
He observed the young boy in front of him, and quickly guessed his identity, his purpose in saving him, and how to deal with it - the one who saved him might not have good intentions, and it might be even more dangerous to fall into the tiger's mouth right after escaping from the wolf's den.
"It was your teacher, Councillor Richoide, who asked me to find you."
Edward interrupted his thoughts with a direct reply, "Let's go, he's injured, and he's hiding under the stone bridge now."
Roy King was stunned for a moment. He then turned his head and saw the magnificent clock tower with red, blue and yellow as the main colors behind him. Then he realized that he had arrived at Olawi Island.
But he still didn't dare to relax at all. Facing the questioning gaze of his disciple Darkwill, he looked at Edward and asked, "What is your relationship with my teacher?"
Roy King was quite sure that there was no such member of the School of Life.
"Strictly speaking, I don't even know your teacher. After all, we only exchanged a few words across the bridge."
Edward smiled and said, "Your teacher will tell you what you should know, so I won't say more." He paused and said, "Where is the dice?"
Chapter 442 Are You the New Lord of Mysteries?
"!!!"
After all, he came here for the dice!
"Not with us."
Edward raised his eyebrows, not too surprised: "Yes, if you had it with you, it would have fallen into the hands of the admiral by now."
As he said this he glanced at the fat pharmacist.
In the original novel, the dice should have been given to him by Roy King for safekeeping, and later sent to the Island of Oravi with the help of Klein. Unexpectedly, this time the master and apprentice were arrested by the Governor's Office together.
But Edward also confirmed that when they were caught by the Governor's Mansion, they did not have the dice on them, so where did that thing go?
Huh?
I remember that the fat pharmacist must have raised an owl specifically for the purpose of playing the role of animal tamer, but I didn't see the owl when I rescued them just now.
Was it because of my appearance that he didn't raise it, or... was the dice given to the owl and taken away?
Soon, they came to a place about six or seven meters away from the stone bridge arch.
The fat pharmacist was in a daze all the way. Just as he was about to continue moving forward with the teacher, his feet inexplicably slipped and he sat heavily on the ground. He screamed in pain and quickly covered his mouth. The fat on his face trembled.
"Don't come any closer."
At this time, a hoarse voice came from the bridge tunnel.
"teacher!"
Roy King's heart suddenly relaxed. Was this young man really sent by the teacher to save us?
"Who did you give the things to?"
Richoed asked in a hoarse voice, "I sense that you have been plagued by bad luck not long ago."
"Yes… yes."
Roy King thought of the children who had lost their shelter because of him. "Before we were caught, Darkwill's pet owl escaped with the things."
"This was the only way at the time. We don't know where it flew with its belongings..."
It was really taken away by that owl.
I don't know how much time has passed. If the dice had rolled a 2 or 1 within this period of time, it would have been cold by now.
"Councilman Richoed, please give me some good luck. I will go find the owl right now... I hope it is still alive."
After waiting for more than ten seconds, Richaud breathed a sigh of relief and said, "You have become lucky enough."
It seems that he was really seriously injured, and even with a little luck he would be very tired.
Edward was about to teleport away, but hesitated and asked, "Senator Richoed, may I know what caused you to be injured like this?"
"certainly."
There were a few coughs from the bridge tunnel. "Zatwin and Jax from the Rose School teamed up to attack me."
"For the dice?"
"That's right."
"Why?"
Edward wondered, "Why would the Rose School need it?"
Richoed sighed, "Because of the opposition between the 'Mother Tree of Desire' and the 'Original Moon', the Rose School has always been very hostile to our Life School. So they may not need it, but they don't want us to have it even more."
Edward then remembered that the School of Life has always believed in the original moon, but the original moon is now occupied by the Fallen Mother Goddess - so in a sense, your School of Life is also a cult that believes in foreign gods, right?
I don't know how Will became the boss of the Mercury Snake, or... he actually didn't know that the original moon had already become an Outer God?
"That's right."
At this time, Richaud suddenly said, "The Rose School's attack on me this time seems to be just a byproduct. They must have other plans."
"Why are you telling me this?"
"The Beyonders of the Monster Path always have a special premonition of the future and see things that others cannot see. I see a strong connection between you and the Rose School."
His voice became heavy: "This connection... is dangerous!"
...
Bayam, Governor's Mansion.
Klein naturally found nothing after his trip to the dungeon. After all, everyone had been rescued before he got there.
Soon, the extraordinary people in the Governor's Mansion reconstructed what happened at that time through divination. A man with dark skin suddenly appeared in the cell where Roy King and others were and took them away.
The whole process takes only a few seconds.
"Admiral, the person who rescued the prisoner was a servant of the Governor's Mansion." The Beyonder in charge of divination immediately added, "To be precise, it should be someone who disguised himself as that servant."
"Faceless man?"
Klein asked calmly.
"But, the other party seems to be a traveler. Of course, we cannot rule out the possibility that the kidnapper has the seal of the Faceless Man or the Traveler's Gate..."
Huh? A traveler who can change his appearance, why does he sound like Edward?
"Yes, I understand."