Surviving The Fourth Calamity

Chapter 1391: Chapter 1181: Blooming Immortal’s Visit

Midnight squinted and laughed to herself… She was quite surprised by her reincarnation’s peculiar nature.

Edna did not laugh; she asked seriously, “You know you and Black Eye are different, right?

She still has a tiny chance to have a future, but you no longer have that possibility.

Once the battlefield within the soul ends, as the consciousness of your past life, you will completely merge into me… Midnight will cease to exist.”

“Who cares?” Midnight said coldly, “I have no interest in competing with you, so why are you still so obsessed?”

Edna shook her head, “I can feel the despair in your heart… But it’s not for the future you’ve already abandoned; it’s for the sadness of not being pure anymore, and… the unwillingness and regret for the soul contractor you once had.

In your heart, the me with a bit of Black Eye Fragment in the soul is already not truly you… No matter how many reasons you list, how much hatred you harbor, this is the real reason you do not intend to appear again.

If you were merely unable to endure the fact of being controlled by someone else’s hand, you wouldn’t have caused so much trouble.

In your heart, using ‘Edna’s’ soul to approach Kranvo is an insult to the feelings between you… Whether Kranvo accepts you or not, you will suffer.

Simply because that soul isn’t entirely yours.

So, compared to that old guy who manipulated destiny, you hate Black Eye more.

I really don’t understand your thinking.

While this is indeed a good thing for me, I can’t understand… I! How could I make such a foolish decision?

You and Kranvo weren’t even each other’s first love! Why play pure-hearted games?”

Midnight shook her head in confusion, “I don’t know what I’m truly thinking.

But as long as I think that my broken soul was stitched together with Black Eye’s soul, I feel so uncomfortable that I don’t want to see anyone.

Perhaps, just as you said… I feel it is a kind of humiliation to the feelings between me and Kranvo.

I don’t want to think too much… Once a decision is made, I act simply; the more I think, the more wrong it becomes.

As for love, you really don’t understand.

Which is quite good, at least even if Kranvo ends up betraying me, you probably won’t accept it… You’ve distinguished yourself from me clearly, in this regard, you’re stronger than me.

But don’t be too stubborn.

When love truly happens, you’ll understand, everyone before was just a passerby, and there won’t be anyone else in the future.

Like before, occasionally meeting, occasionally looking across the starry sky, it was a form of happiness for us.

See, he still loves me, only me.

Even when he was in the Styx and hadn’t become a deity, I could live holding onto memories.

I can use my remaining days to remember my eternal love, but… I absolutely cannot allow any impurities in between.

Still Black Eye… That kind of… impurity.”

She whispered a very small word, but Edna still understood that she was cursing Black Eye as a villain.

Edna felt something was amiss and searched Midnight’s and their adventure experiences in her mind… Sure enough, Midnight and Kranvo were not lovers at the beginning; they gradually warmed up to each other after temporarily teaming up for a protection task given by Black Eye’s incarnation.

And before that… Given Black Eye’s usual personality, there’s no need to overthink; you know she must have been smoothly moving between the three other men.

Especially the simple Knight Kranvo… Compared to the playful Priest Shuni and the little thief Cyric who grew up in taverns, he was truly the first to take the bait.

Back then, Midnight was still a newbie girl, and she liked graceful young lads, and certainly not a big, square Knight like Kranvo.

So she didn’t care about her teammates’ romantic affairs… As an Arcanist who possessed a fragment of Mystra’s soul, although she didn’t have Mystra’s memory as a backup, she was at a stage of rapid development in power, why bother with such trivial matters.

After experiencing countless dangers, life and death, mutual hardships with her teammates, the proud Arcanist and the resilient and brave Knight finally saw eye to eye.

She didn’t really care about past events… After all, as a powerful Adventurer, who doesn’t have a few exes?

All she wanted was future loyalty.

But Black Eye appeared again.

When Black Eye Mystra reappeared as the Mystic Lady, acting like before, it provoked the now stronger Arcanist Midnight.

Even as a Saint, the furious Midnight was difficult to handle.

If both sides didn’t have teammates behind them… these two might have perished together back in the day.

Then Midnight and Kranvo’s squad parted ways with Black Eye.

They’d rather go on adventures in search of the Tablets of Fate than follow behind the Goddess of Magic as henchmen.

If they hadn’t made a fortune on their journey searching for the Tablets of Fate, Cyric would probably complain daily about Midnight’s love-struck behavior.

Midnight, is a person with very pure emotions, love and hate are absolute… Since then, she has really disliked Black Eye.

So, when she took over the position of Mystra, that kind of unwillingness, Edna seemed to understand it… Pfft!

Edna’s mouth twitched slightly: She truly has no empathy for her own past life’s thought process!

These days, only what is in your own hands is real!

Love? That’s a spice of life! Since when did it become a necessity?

She exhaled a long breath, looking helplessly: “I’ve always been thinking, your attachment to Kranvo, is it because only this person in life gave you genuine warmth.

Otherwise, I’ve thought over and over, and can’t understand, ‘I’! How could I love a man to the point of madness?

Of course, perhaps it’s also because the memories before eight years old are just a segment to me.

Even the fake family bonds in the past aren’t very important in my subconscious… At that time, I could easily wake up from Sharol’s indifference, even disgust.

Perhaps it’s because my soul knows that woman has nothing to do with me, the fact that she doesn’t love me isn’t really wrong, is it…

So, after feeling real warmth, I could live so self-centeredly.

No wonder Sanda King Sister always said that, if taught well, a child who lives happily from childhood understands what it means to be self-aware and self-loving.

To pin emotions on others either harms others or hurts oneself.

And I, the current me, have received enough love, completely no need to draw warmth from others, that’s why I think you place love… more important than yourself, a bit foolish.

Really… doing anything truly requires starting from one’s own perspective to live comfortably.”

Midnight listened silently to Edna’s words, her face left with nothing but aloofness: “Perhaps, you’re right, but, this is my life.

I don’t want to change.

You see, my luck has always been terrible, unlike you… with such happenstance.

The only thing I’ve truly firmly grasped in this life is Kranvo’s love… even the hard-earned power can abandon me, what else do I have?

Edna, the soul mate contract, it is something even among the heavens and the earth, many famous loving couples dare not sign!

Otherwise, it wouldn’t be a story more incredible than legends of All Gods, right?

Perhaps I’m overly extreme, but I don’t regret.”

Edna slightly clasped her hands together at her chest, a purple light slowly emerged, a blooming Immortal’s Visit appeared in her palm.

She earnestly contemplated the Immortal’s Visit… The purple petals slowly turned white, then changed back to purple, finally settling as intermingled white and purple, red crystalline veins covered all the petals.

“Look~” Edna said with a smile, “We have another chance, but the odds are very low, only can gamble once, this… is a gamble of souls even AO cannot intervene.

If not for your genuine intention to disappear just like that, I wouldn’t propose it.

Maybe, your luck is indeed bad, but as your reincarnation, I seem to have found fortune at the end of darkness.

So, perhaps, this reincarnation ceremony hosted by me might seize that fine point of luck.

Would you be willing to strive one more time with me?

Just one thing, the Magic Power in Josse Garden is too fierce, certainly unable to allow your frail consciousness to re-grow into a complete person.

Then… if this Immortal’s Visit can bloom outside, could I let that silent watcher in the Styx take it for a period of cultivation?

That omnipresent sense of watching gives me a headache, really, I’m still young, only three days until I become an adult!

Really don’t want to be stared at by a man like that.”

Midnight laughed “haha”: “Kranvo truly guessed you are the real one~ If Deepwater City is just a slight suspicion, he should confirm after Candlekeep.”

She then belatedly exclaimed ‘Ah?!’, full of surprise, eyes wide stared tightly at Edna: “You, what do you mean by this?”

“However, one thing needs to be clear beforehand.

Though you need the Soul Force of Styx to slowly converge, if truly successful, you must not stay in Styx, as you who share the same soul as me must return to Josse Garden to become my Lesser God.” Edna said slowly, “Moreover, because you restore with Styx Force, even the Divinity can only be selected among fixed kinds.

Luckily, although I can’t do much on the prophecy side, I surely will reclaim all kinds of Divinity from Lich Lord.

So, are you willing to accept such… evil Divinity?”

“If I can be like Kranvo… I don’t care whether those who worship me are evil, but my Church must be kind and neutral.”

Edna shook her head, sighed helplessly: “Aren’t you dreaming?

Though there are neutral necromancers and liches anyway, no need to have a church, no one has to believe in you.

The Weave isn’t in your hands, probably no one would demand what kind of believers you have.”