Go back? There's no going back.

The simplest example is the corruption disease spread by the Cult of Eternal Night, which is now spreading more and more seriously across the entire continent. At this stage, almost all forces are trying their best to research methods and antidotes to treat the infected.

However, only this woman and the Dawn Cult behind her have adopted the policy of rather killing the innocent than letting the guilty go from the very beginning.

That's why, seeing Su Wei so close to this madman, Celsia felt her heart tighten, fearing that if she wasn't careful, some kid would have his head twisted off by the madman who suddenly lost interest.

"Princess? You mean it doesn't matter...?"

At this moment, Su Wei in the picture looked confused.

"What I mean is that you don't have to worry about her doing anything bad to the royal city."

Thinking of this, Celsia took a deep breath, looked at Su Wei, and tried to raise a smile at the corner of her lips: "So, don't be too hostile to her, understand?"

"……is that so."

Su Wei was stunned when he heard such an unexpected answer.

"Oh, is that so?"

However, at this moment, the evil witch beside her showed a little surprise after hearing the princess's response for some reason, and looked at her with a smile: "I remember, you didn't say that before."

"..."

Being thwarted in front of her, Celsia was silent for a moment, subconsciously glanced at Su Wei in the picture, took a deep breath and said: "What do you want?"

When asking this question, Celsia already had the answer in her heart.

Although she didn't know how this crazy woman and Su Wei came to meet each other, but... she was very clear about the other party's request, which would probably be just that one.

"Yes, if I were to ask what I want now... it seems that I don't have it."

However, the next second, under Celsia's gaze, Eve blurted out a completely meaningless sentence: "I just heard this little brother calling me princess all the time, gentle and great, which was a bit irritating."

"I want him to see with his own eyes how the First Princess, whom he respects, views him, and whether she would be willing to learn to bark like a pig or a dog to protect his life."

At this point, Eve sighed slightly and looked at Celia with an especially subtle look in her eyes: "But forget it now. I always feel that you will shout it out without hesitation, which will spoil my mood."

“…Huh? I, I won’t hesitate—”

Hearing this, Celsia's face froze.

“So, I decided to switch things up a little bit.”

Without paying attention to Celsia's rebuttal, Eve raised her right hand slightly in front of the first princess, with a wisp of gray air lingering on her fingertips, and directly touched Su Wei's forehead.

“Wait, what are you doing…!?”

Seeing this scene, Celsia's face changed drastically and she stood up from her seat suddenly.

"Don't you know exactly what I'm doing?"

Slowly putting down her hand and looking at Su Wei whose pupils were gradually dilating, Eve turned her head and looked at Celsia in the picture, saying calmly: "Don't worry, dead things can't be collected by me."

"I don't know why, but this kid always manages to get on my nerves unexpectedly. So, like your bracelet, I'm going to mark him a little bit..."

At this point, Eve's voice...suddenly paused.

Just like when she killed and enslaved the undead in the past, along with the formation of the Pluto's mark, a short piece of the most profound memory of her lifetime appeared in Eve's mind.

In a person's memory, one naturally cannot see oneself.

What Eve saw from the little mouse's mind at this moment was a middle-aged woman in a dilapidated house, with a smile on her face, holding the little mouse and spinning around in circles.

Is that person the mother of this little mouse?

Judging from the degree of bumpy perspective, the little mouse at that time... seemed to be very young, at most just a baby who had just learned to speak.

This was a very common scene.

But when Eve gradually saw the middle-aged woman's face during the bumpy ride...she suddenly froze in place.

……

……Eh?

Who is this woman...?

……

Why...does it make her feel so familiar?

Chapter 47: My...child? (7.5k)

The vision in her mind was still shaking, and just through the perspective of the wobbling baby, Eve could clearly feel the joy of the middle-aged woman at the time.

However, after realizing this, she became even more surprised.

Because she noticed that at this moment, just by looking at this scene in her memory, she inexplicably had a strange illusion of empathy.

As we all know, for the Pluto body, which has always been ranked in the top five in the history of the continent and even has the highest theoretical upper limit, one of its few shortcomings is that when killing prey and enslaving targets, it needs to face the strongest emotions of the deceased before death and suppress the strongest and most important memory in its soul... or obsession.

Successful suppression means slavery.

For this reason, the first two Pluto bodies that exist in documented records can be said to have suffered a lot.

Even after they have grown strong, they can summon a terrifying number of undead seas with a wave of their hands and easily ravage most of the forces entrenched on the continent.

But at the same time, even though the Pluto bodies were born with strong mental strength, after swallowing the obsessions of countless creatures, their mental states also had some problems to a greater or lesser extent.

Split personality, mental disorder...are just the most common symptoms.

In the later period, the first Pluto body even experienced a backlash in consciousness, and even its personality was swallowed up by the Sea of ​​Undead. Eventually, it lost itself and became a walking corpse.

This drawback did not begin to improve until the third Pluto body was born, after decades of dedicated research, creating the prototypes of two spiritual magics called "Enlightenment of the Mind" and "Purification of the Soul".

As the name suggests, these two types of spiritual magic are mainly used to help the user maintain his or her self.

Among them, the word "Purifying Soul" is just as its name suggests, it can purify the soul and dilute the external soul shock as much as possible.

In short, with the means of "soul purification", the risk for the Pluto body, which originally had to face the emotional impact of the prey's crazy counterattack before death every time it carried out enslavement, will be greatly reduced.

It is equivalent to changing from the mutual devouring between the soul in the scene and the residual soul to a one-sided reading of a narrative.

When it came to Eve, after obtaining the inheritance left by the previous three Pluto bodies, she further improved the "Enlightenment of the Mind" and "Purification of the Soul", further increasing the number of undead that could be enslaved, making the Pluto body great again.

Compared to "purifying the soul", "enlightening the mind" is, to some extent, more important to the Pluto body.

Because of the frequent need to suppress other people's souls and read memories that do not belong to him, the mental state of the Pluto body has always been poor. He is often disturbed by distracting thoughts and may even forget his original goals and who he is.

In this situation, the existence of "clear mind" is crucial.

After all, its only function is to greatly strengthen a certain thought or goal in the user's mind and weaken other "distractions".

For Eve herself, her "clear mind" is to avenge her mother at all costs.

This goal has never wavered since more than ten years ago, after being strengthened by Eve through "Enlightenment of the Heart", even after experiencing many external spiritual shocks.

However, it was precisely because of this that Eve now felt something strange.

Because, clearly, the clear mind and pure soul in her mind was still functioning, but... now after seeing this memory that theoretically did not belong to her, she began to become restless.

"..."

Staring at the face of the middle-aged woman in the memory fragment, Eve fell silent.

After improving her Mingxin Jinghun, she is now the strongest of the four Hades in history, and also the one who enslaves the largest number of undead.

But, there is still some problem with her memory...

The reason for this was probably that eight years ago, in order to break through the shackles of a higher level and cross the natural barrier that was theoretically completely blocked, she resolutely chose to enslave more undead, exceeding the limit of what she could bear.

Even if it is just a dry narrative, if you read it too much, when the number exceeds millions, tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions... it can still cause confusion in one's memory.

Like now.

Eve was very sure that she had seen the middle-aged woman in Su Wei's memory somewhere before.

But she couldn't remember it for a moment.

"...!"

After a moment, Eve, who had been frowning and rubbing her forehead with her right hand, and was constantly searching for something in her mind that did not belong to her, suddenly stopped.

Those eyes that were as peaceful as the night also widened slightly at this moment.

The next second, the shadow under his feet twisted, and a bony arm handed a medium-sized box out of the shadow and to Eve's hand, then retreated quietly.

Then, after staring at the small box in her hand for a few seconds, Eve took a deep breath, slowly opened the box, and looked inside.

Inside, there were several talisman stones arranged in a disorderly manner.

Above these runes, there are completely different and blurry human faces.

Just like the new mask Eve made earlier.

After looking at it for a while, Eve reached out, picked up one of the runes, and held it in her palm.

The construction principle of this type of mask, which is made by the special physique ability of "Thousand Faces", is that the target's appearance can only be recorded in detail when the target is unaware or unable to resist.

With slightly harsh usage conditions, its camouflage effect is indeed very good.

The only pity is that the "mask" produced has an expiration date.

Generally, a mask will begin to have problems a few years after it is made, or at most ten years, and the user will need to replace it with a new one.

For example, the "mask" that Eve is holding in her hand now can no longer be activated smoothly.

However, Eve doesn't plan to use it now.

She just wanted to confirm something.

Slowly exerting force with her right hand, she pinched the talisman stone bit by bit.

Then, the image of a middle-aged woman gradually emerged in her field of vision.

That was what outsiders saw when the mask was first used.

Although it is no longer usable, it is still possible to confirm the original appearance of this mask.

"..."

Then, after carefully comparing the middle-aged woman engraved on the mask with the middle-aged woman in Su Wei's memory... Eve was completely stunned.

The two look...exactly the same.

According to the years of use, the middle-aged woman in the little ghost's memory who once claimed to be a relative... was herself.

"..."

Eve held her breath unconsciously and turned her head to look at Su Wei, who had lost consciousness after receiving the Mark of Pluto and was sleeping on the floor.

So, in that memory just now, the baby she had held in her arms...

Is it this little kid in front of me...?

he is……

my child?

As this conclusion came to her mind, Eve's brain went blank and her eyes widened little by little.

"...!"

The next second, Eve suddenly came back to her senses, quickly walked to Su Wei and squatted down, staring at the face in front of her intently.

Maybe it was because she had already found the answer, but Eve suddenly felt that the memories in her mind began to change.

The face that was originally mixed with countless memories that did not belong to him, was buried bit by bit and became blurred... At this moment, it was gradually overlapping with the face of the little ghost in front of him.

……Eh?

At this moment, Eve finally realized something.

He... is really, my child?

She and he had known each other for a long, long time.

I see……

Is this the reason why I always feel that this little kid is pleasing to the eye?

Even though I have the blessing of a clear mind and a pure soul, the reason why I am always easily provoked by this little devil is...is this the reason?

Realizing this, Eve fell silent for a moment.

The next second, the shadow beneath her twisted again, but this time no bones appeared.