Death… And Me

Chapter 3542: The Target Is Something Else

”Didn’t you listen to your friend?” Elsie asked while looking at Rifindio. ”The portraits materialize all over the Universe. Not only that, the moment they appear, huge phenomena play out, so it is very hard to miss. I just so happened to be the closest one during that time, ninety-five years ago.”

”You managed to flee from your pursuers for four years?” Rean was quite impressed since there were Divinity Realm experts coming after her, and she was being tracked somehow. Since she had been inside the Dimensional Realm for 91 years, she found the portrait four years prior.

”Of course not!” Too bad it was wrong. ”Each portrait has ten slots, right? Well... I tried to sell the other slots... Let’s just say things didn’t play out as planned, and I was forced to flee. It’s just that I got tracked somehow. That’s when I met you guys.”

The idea of the ’dust settling’ that the twins thought before completely disappeared from their minds. With such a chance right there for the taking, no one would give up looking for Elsie Ranka until the very last moment.

”That answers my question,” Roan nodded.

Rifindio also spoke on the side. ”I can at least confirm about the way the portraits appear all over the Universe. Of course, I wasn’t alive when the Celestial Supreme Palace appeared the last time.”

”Shouldn’t you have told us about such an important thing before?” Kentucky couldn’t help but ask.

Yet, Rean shrugged and answered that question in Rifindio’s place. ”The Palace appears between one hundred and two hundred thousand years every time. What would be the point of Rifindio speaking about it? Rifindio himself isn’t even a thousand years old yet.”

”Indeed,” Rifindio followed. ”I mean, in my mind, it was more like a legend until a moment ago... Not something I would ever be destined with.”

”Okay, let’s see this portrait you talked about.” Roan was only interested in the quest.

”Ha!” Of course, Elsie wouldn’t bring it out. ”Do you think I was born yesterday? If I take it out from my Pocket Dimensional Realm, you could easily steal it from me since I’m inside your Pocket Dimensional Realm. What? Are you going to use the same threat of sending me away on my own? I don’t care. If I get it stolen in the end, it will make no difference.”

Roan didn’t mind. ”True. So, what is your plan? If you don’t bring it out, how will we know where to go?”

”I can bring it out, but only after we get to the outside world,” Elsie suggested. ”There, I won’t have any reason to be afraid of you all. That definitely won’t happen inside your Pocket Dimensional Realm, though.”

What she wanted was pretty obvious. She wanted them to remove the tracker so she could go outside and bring out the portrait. But in that case, she could actually flee straight away, and there would be nothing the twins’ group could do. Thus, it became a dilemma... for two seconds.

”Here you go,” Rean threw Elsie a ring, or maybe it was a bracelet. Its size seemed to be something in between. Perhaps it was better to say it was an accessory. There were many inscription patterns and runes on it, some of which gave the same sensation as the Celestial Soul Dimensional Realm. It was very intricate.

”What’s this?” Elsie took the item and checked it up close.

”Oh, it is very useful,” Rean explained. ”As long as you wear it, the tracker put on you won’t work. We can go outside anytime you want. Didn’t you notice? It has exactly the same size as your core. Just put it around your core, and you are golden.”

”Really?!” Elsie’s eyes lit up, putting the core accessory straight away. ”Let’s go!”

*Zush, zush, zush, zush...*

With a single wave of his hand, Rean and everyone else appeared in the outside world. Now they just needed to wait for Elsie to show the portrait.

Yet, she looked away, wondering about her next step. Since she couldn’t be tracked, she could finally leave on her own... But then, it dawned on her. ”By the way, how long does it work?”

Rean’s face showed a playful expression. ”About an hour?”

Elsie bitterly smiled in response. Yes, she couldn’t escape. She would be able to keep her portrait safe while outside, but could she keep herself safe once the accessory’s power ran out? The answer was obviously no. Not even hiding in her own Pocket Dimensional Realm seemed to work. ”I see... pretty smart one you are, aren’t you? Well, let me show you then.”

She took some distance and accessed her Pocket Dimensional Realm. A second later, an enormous portrait appeared in front of the group. It was truly big, at least ten meters tall and six meters wide. As for the picture itself, it was of a big tower, white as snow, a blue sky background, and a few birds around. It was quite simple, but the portrait seemed to give a feeling that they hadn’t felt before...

Well, Rifindio and company hadn’t. Rean, Roan, Celis, and Kentucky did feel it before, though.

’Doesn’t the portrait give you a feeling of the Celestial Laws we got in contact with back then?’ Kentucky asked. He was also there and benefited from the Celestial Laws when he broke through into the Divinity Realm with the others.

Rean, Roan, and Celis obvious agreed with him. ’It sure does. Seems like this Celestial Supreme Palace has some connection with the Celestial Laws. But then again, the system’s quest said that Triaglia became a Celestial Realm Expert exactly because of this Celestial Supreme Palace. Since Celestial Laws are necessary for the breakthrough, it makes sense for the palace to have some of it, including this portrait.’

Roan then ignored that, as he wasn’t surprised. Instead, he looked at Rean, who nodded back at him.

Rean waved his hand, and out of nowhere, a formation lit up right below where they were located. Elsie was taken aback and immediately fought back the energy of the formation... which proved to be meaningless. The formation hadn’t really targeted her. Instead, it targeted her portrait!