84. Wait a Minute?
The coffin was taken away by Sophia, and it took less than half an hour to be transported to the basement of the Blood King’s Palace.
During this period, Reina had been using her perception ability to analyze the surrounding situation.
The ones responsible for the transportation were the princes and the maids, with Sophia leading the way, and the other princes were also surrounding them, on high alert.
And around the royal palace, blood race soldiers had also been arranged. Even a small ladybug couldn’t fly in.
On Sophia’s face was an expression between excitement and worry.
The [Eye of Light], which was fully activated, could easily see that this was one of her most important matters in recent years.
After being transported to a basement several thousand meters deep, or a tunnel that could be called an underground ruin, Sophia dismissed everyone and, using her blood power to lift the coffin, she walked into a huge stone door filled with magic runes.
When the gate, comparable to the outer seal of the Hundred-Layer Purgatory, slammed shut, the only things left in the quiet space were the coffin and Sophia.
Dust flew up. This place hadn’t been cleaned in a long time.
“Goddess, let’s begin here…”
Was it really the goddess?
Reina was thoughtful.
When her memory was fully restored, Reina remembered the locations of all the deep ruins.
But this place was not in her memory.
And the content that Reina generally couldn’t recall, besides the memories of the Primordial Era thousands of years ago, was Aurora’s hidden forces all over the world.
She had to start suspecting Sophia because of this.
She had been hiding something.
For so long, she had no malice towards Reina, which was why this important matter had been delayed until now.
Reina still planned to see this person completely, because she couldn’t rule out the possibility that behind Sophia was Aurora.
From the moment she had brought out the [Person of Faith] to deceive her, Reina had been suspicious.
Sophia, following Reina’s operational demonstration, inserted the four keys into the keyholes on the four sides of the coffin, and then, Reina’s Light Clone “saw the light of day again.”
The “Goddess of Light” wore a silver-white dress with golden lace, holy and beautiful.
Her eyes were tightly closed, and her skin showed no signs of decay, but she had completely lost any aura or magic power.
However, one could still see a sense of light and holiness on this “corpse,” temporarily at peace, just for a reawakening countless years later.
However, even though the seal had been opened with four keys that could never be recreated, the “Goddess of Light’s” remains were still bound by purple chains.
These chains had been put on by Reina, with the purpose of making this disguise more successful.
“Goddess of Light…”
Sophia muttered again.
Then, she gathered all her strength and actually forcibly broke the chains on the Goddess of Light’s body!
“Boom—!”
The powerful aftershock stirred up a large amount of dust around the room, and the goddess, who was emitting a faint light, was not stained with a single speck of dust.
Sophia closed the lid of the coffin, placed the “Goddess of Light’s” remains on it, and then actually knelt down.
“I now have the strength to help you, but why, why…”
“Why is it like this… Didn’t we have an agreement thousands of years ago?”
What?
“I’m sorry, I was too useless, I was too weak. My magic wasn’t fully effective, I failed. I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry…”
…
Her voice became more and more trembling, until Reina could no longer hear what she was moaning. However, the sound of her tears falling on the ground was incredibly clear.
Reina was suddenly at a loss.
Sophia wasn’t lying. She was even showing more true emotion than she did in front of Reina.
And this statement, for the first time, let her know that she had miscalculated something.
From the moment Sophia had mentioned the [Prophesied One], she had assumed that Sophia and Aurora had some kind of relationship.
Aurora had played a trick, and before the Four Realms were sealed, she had formed a bond with the blood race or something…
The prophesied one she had mentioned was also very likely directly related to Aurora. This was the only thing Reina needed to be concerned about.
And what Sophia had just said, however, let Reina know a shocking truth.
—Sophia was the last Blood Queen of the Primordial Era.
She had once made a deal with the Goddess of Light, and that deal had given birth to the divine artifact, the [Blood King’s Bone], which had been passed down to this day.
And Sophia’s apology to the Goddess of Light could no longer be described with common sense.
“I failed, Goddess. I haven’t fully recovered my memory yet. It’s all my fault. It was I who killed you.”
“If I had eaten the [Blood King’s Bone] earlier, if I had been a little braver, I could have saved you, but I, damn it, damn it…”
She had made a mistake.
She had agreed on a time with the Goddess of Light and had been reincarnated into the era she should have gone to, but she hadn’t recovered her memory.
Sophia’s tears fell on Reina’s arm.
“What should I do now, Goddess?”
“The God Slaying Society has killed you, the Shadow of God is using you. Peter might be right. I, I… what else can I do if I continue like this?”
“Now, I even have to rely on the blood of your dragon to survive…”
…
“My strength was even restored with her guidance, and the blood race was also saved by her.”
“My memory recovery was also thanks to her blood.”
“…In the end, I can’t do anything.”
“I even used her, and I can’t even gain her trust. Now I’m just foolishly carrying the banner.”
Sophia said, trembling.
What a dummy.
Reina had originally thought that Sophia would exchange all her treasures for a chance to save the blood race, overthrow the President of the God Slaying Society, and even cooperate with Aurora.
And in the end, she just wanted to see the God of Light.
Reina suddenly discovered that Sophia was actually shaking her arm.
But she could never wake up a person who was pretending to be asleep, a person who was pretending to be asleep.
As if knowing that her actions couldn’t wake up the sleeping Reina, she finally stopped. Her black stockings were torn by the rough floor, revealing her fair skin.
Her tears had also almost dried up, leaving only a pair of vacant crimson eyes.
She had no feelings for Reina, but was wholeheartedly for the blood race and the queen.
Interestingly,
Reina was no longer the Goddess of Light, and unlike Elena, she didn’t suspect at all that Reina was the Goddess of Light… and even saw them as opposing existences.
And her kindness didn’t even make her have a shred of malice towards Reina, who had saved the blood race.
What a pitiful child.
So, was that why she hadn’t turned into a dragon…
After crying for half an hour, Sophia began to sob again. She covered her face, trying to wipe her tears away, but in fact, the tears flowed through her fingers and fell miserably on her thighs.
And then, a few more hours passed.
“Goddess, being imprisoned here, you must have lost even the power to be revived.”
“Don’t worry, I will definitely persuade little sister Reina to free you.”
“Let me borrow some of your strength first.”
She leaned down slightly and bit the “Goddess of Light’s” neck. Because of the familiar scent, her eyes widened abruptly.
Wait, wait a minute?
