Amelia thought it over carefully. Even if she wouldn’t reclaim her kingdom, cooperating with Verna wouldn’t be a bad thing. She could receive help in many other matters. Whether she herself could provide help in return was a different matter entirely, depending on the circumstances.
But the foundation of all this was trust!
“Whether it’s your matter or mine, both are of utmost importance. Naturally, a simple verbal agreement won’t do. So, under God’s Witness, let us sign a contract.”
As she spoke, Verna took out a yellowed parchment scroll and placed it on the table before her. It was clear she had prepared this beforehand.
God’s Witness?
Amelia searched her memory, and the relevant information quickly surfaced.
The so-called “God” naturally referred to the deities who transformed people into Apostles.
And God’s Witness was a contract established using special parchment, a special ritual, and presided over by an Apostle!
A contract formed under such conditions was unbreakable. Whoever violated it would inevitably suffer divine punishment and die.
As the concept of this contract surfaced in her mind, Amelia understood immediately. “You’re an Apostle?”
She looked at Verna, whose surface identity was that of an ordinary person.
God’s Witness required an Apostle to officiate.
And no one knew that Amelia herself was an Apostle. Verna had no way of knowing that. Therefore, Verna herself had to be an Apostle to conduct this ceremony.
“Correct, I am an Apostle. This is not something I need to hide from a business partner like you,” Verna admitted.
“What is your Rank?”
“Low-Rank Apostle.”
“Which God do you have faith in?”
“The Book of Mysteries.”
Verna did not hide anything from Amelia’s questions. She even briefly explained the two abilities she currently possessed.
Two-Layer World: Isolates a region from the Outside World, preventing any commotion inside from being detected by those outside.
Area Lockdown: Creates a confined zone that traps people, preventing them from leaving.
After briefly explaining her situation, Verna opened the parchment and pointed to its contents. “Amelia, these are the terms of our cooperation. See if there are any problems.”
Amelia picked up the parchment and examined it.
It was specially treated parchment; only this kind could establish a connection with the divine.
After feeling the parchment’s texture, Amelia’s attention fell on the content, quickly scanning through the clauses one by one.
“Some aspects need modification,” Amelia said after reading.
“Which aspects?”
“These here…”
Amelia and Verna began to discuss the clauses on the parchment in detail.
During this process, the viewers would also offer advice to Amelia through Bullet Comments.
Although the viewers didn’t know their Bullet Comments could be seen by Amelia, the purpose of the comments was for them to express their immediate thoughts. And these expressed thoughts could indeed help Amelia.
It didn’t take long for Amelia and Verna to draft an agreement that satisfied both parties.
The next step was to let God witness it!
Verna took the parchment and moved to the side, placing it on the floor. She then took out a bottle of specially made essence and poured a circle around herself and the parchment, enclosing them both within.
After that, she took out a candle made of special material and lit it.
Amelia, having searched her mind for knowledge on this subject, understood what she needed to do. She immediately went to turn off the living room lights, then walked over and stood inside the circle formed by the essence.
Both of them were in the circle, with the parchment between them.
Verna handed the candle to Amelia, and Amelia took it.
Then Verna took out a Mindscape Diagram of the Book of Mysteries. Only by the candle’s light, Amelia couldn’t accurately determine the Realism Level of that Mindscape Diagram. But regardless of its Realism Level, as long as it was a Mindscape Diagram normally used for Meditation, it would be sufficient to function at this moment.
After unfolding the Mindscape Diagram, Verna murmured softly, “You possess the remoteness of deep space, you possess the mystery of the vast sea… Please answer my call, Great Book of Mysteries, we need your witness… The Contract is eternal!”
As Verna’s lengthy incantation fell, both Verna and Amelia suddenly felt as if something was watching them.
This sensation of being watched disappeared in an instant, yet it still made their bodies instinctively tense up.
And in that very instant, the flame on the candle in Amelia’s hand suddenly surged, arcing in a parabola down onto the Mindscape Diagram of the Book of Mysteries in Verna’s hands, setting it alight.
Verna released her grip just in time, and the Mindscape Diagram fell onto the parchment on the floor. But instead of burning the parchment, it transformed into light and merged directly into it.
Looking down, both Amelia and Verna could see on the parchment that words, each character bright and clear, were emerging. They were the clauses they had inscribed on the parchment.
Bathed in that radiance, the parchment vanished from the spot just like that, no longer existing in the material world.
The Contract was sealed!
With the Contract established, Amelia felt a wave of relief in her heart.
According to the Contract, she and Verna were now bound to keep each other’s secrets, no matter what those secrets were, unable to tell anyone else.
Furthermore, the other clauses were also relatively lenient for Amelia.
“The Contract is complete. Amelia, from now on, we’re on the same side,” Verna said happily.
Her path to becoming Grand Duchess was long and arduous, requiring much assistance. Being able to draw in a sufficiently powerful ally was undoubtedly a great thing.
Hearing Verna’s happy voice, however, Amelia’s expression turned strange.
Only she herself knew that she didn’t possess any profound background or faction and that the ways she could help Verna were quite limited.
Regardless, the Contract was complete. Amelia went to turn the living room lights back on.
After switching on the lights, Amelia looked at Verna. A thought stirred in her mind, and she said, “Since we are now partners cooperating, it shouldn’t be a problem if I ask for a small favor.”
“Naturally. What do you require?” Verna nodded.
“I need to find a Black Crow Adventure Group. If you have any information on this Adventure Party, remember to tell me.”
“Black Crow Adventure Group?”
Hearing the name of this Adventure Party, Verna’s expression couldn’t help but turn peculiar.
“You’ve heard of the Black Crow Adventure Group?” Amelia noticed the change in Verna’s expression.
