Let them live with that regret for the rest of their lives!

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She clenched her fists involuntarily, then let them relax weakly.

"If there's nothing else, I'll go work out first." Elena felt a bit irritable and decided to go to the training ground to work out and calm down.

"Ah."

Vivian glanced at Elena, then maneuvered her wheelchair to Elise's room.

She took a deep breath, savoring the faint scent of morning dew and flowers in the room. She slowly got up and walked to Elise's bedside, then lay down directly on the soft bed.

On the other side, Iris, who had already followed Rumia to the Eternal Church's headquarters, suddenly shivered. For a moment, she had sensed an inexplicable danger.

She carefully observed her surroundings. This was the room Rumia had prepared for her, right next to Rumia's room.

Just then, there was a knock at the door and Rumia's voice: "Iris, may I come in?"

"Yes, it's okay."

As Iris finished speaking, Rumia pushed open the door and walked in, a holy smile on her face as she looked at Iris: "How are you feeling? Are you getting used to it here?"

“I just came over and I don’t know either, but with Miss Rumia here, I think I’d definitely be able to get used to it.” Iris looked at Rumia with undisguised longing and hidden admiration in her eyes.

Rumia saw through her emotions and thought that even if she asked Iris to take off her clothes and sleep with her right now, Iris would probably agree without hesitation.

The sudden thought startled Rumia.

Noticing the change in Rumia's expression, Iris asked worriedly, "Miss Rumia, what's wrong?"

"No, it's nothing." Rumia turned her head away, avoiding eye contact with Iris. She hadn't expected to have such a desire for Iris—how filthy!

"I came to tell you that I have some business to attend to this afternoon and may be back a little late. If you're bored, you can have her accompany you for a walk." Rumia pointed to the woman in the black robe.

Although Iris's eyes sparkled with curiosity, she was actually quite surprised, not expecting that Rumia would keep this Heroic Spirit by her side.

As a gamer, she had already recognized the other person's identity.

Vanessa, 'Song of the Earth'

The Earth Goddess's most warlike follower, after dying in battle, was transformed into a heroic spirit by the Eternal Church. Her strength was also reduced from the original eighth rank to the current seventh rank, making her an extremely troublesome enemy.

The so-called Song of the Earth is the sound of mountains collapsing and the earth splitting apart. It can even manipulate gravity, making it impossible to fight it in the air.

I wonder if Wendy can beat her, maybe... we don't even need to fight her.

Vanessa should have been with Rumia from the beginning, meaning she was there before Rumia's blessing was sealed. As a favorite of the Earth Goddess, she should have been able to sense her own blessing at that time.

However, based on the current situation, the Eternal Church has not discovered her identity as an Earth Priestess.

Is it possible that Vanessa discovered her secret but helped her keep it from him?

There is such a setting in the game: if you face a Heroic Spirit of the same system as yourself, the opponent's desire to attack will be very negative, and they may even stand still like a wooden stake.

At the time, some players suspected that heroic spirits could be awakened, but after many attempts, no results were found.

Whether or not it can be awakened is another matter, but if the opponent faces Wendy, it should not pose a threat.

The threat comes from another heroic spirit who is about to be transported here.

One of her purposes in coming here was to confirm the identity of that Heroic Spirit in order to devise a strategy to defeat him.

When Elise looked at Vanessa, Vanessa also glanced at Elise with empty eyes, then continued to stand there blankly, like a doll.

However, as a priestess of the Earth Goddess, Elise could still feel a sense of familiarity from her.

However, she did not intend to attempt to reveal her mark, as this was, after all, the headquarters of the Eternal Church, and if she was not careful, she would have to start a new playthrough.

Iris looked at Rumia again and said with a reluctant tone, "I will wait for you to come back here, Miss Rumia."

Hearing Iris's words, Lumia hesitated for a moment, then said to her, "You can just call me Lumia."

"Is it really possible?"

Rumia nodded.

"Then... Rumia, I'll wait for you to come back." Iris's voice carried a hint of nervousness and shyness.

Hearing Iris call her name, Rumia suddenly felt a tremor in her heart. After responding, she quickly left the room.

She casually closed the door, leaned against it gently, and recalled the desire that had just surfaced in her heart.

She should have noticed something was wrong, but she was completely oblivious. No one could see the depths of her eyes, where the eerie heart-shaped mark was becoming increasingly obvious.

……

In the evening, after a power struggle with an old nobleman of the empire, she returned to the headquarters of the Eternal Church.

As soon as Rumia stepped inside, she heard Iris's voice from the second-floor balcony: "Rumia, you're back."

Seeing the delighted Elise, Rumia's lips curled into a faint smile, and then she lightly leaped to Elise's side.

The silver-armored knight following behind Lumia was somewhat surprised. The saintess she knew rarely acted like this, and she could even sense an eagerness emanating from her.

She didn't know if this was a bad thing, but as a guardian, her duty was only to protect the saintess, and she had no right to interfere with anything else.

Unless Elise poses a threat to the saint.

However, based on her observations over this period of time, Elise did not exhibit any unusual behavior, and she did not believe that Elise, who was only at the third rank, would pose a threat to Rumia.

Why do I feel uneasy?

Volume 1: Chapter 94 You Have Already Made Your Choice

As night fell, Ling Ai) Lina went to bed early and waited for Lin to fall asleep before entering the burning (five churches).

She discovered that ever since she could enter the Burning Church in her dreams, she had gained the ability to sleep whenever she wanted.

Once she lay down, she didn't even need to prepare herself; she only needed to imagine the burning church in her mind, and in the blink of an eye, she would appear there.

Feeling the familiar heat and smell of smoke, Elena slowly opened her eyes.

What comes into view is a broken, burning church, and another version of myself standing in the center of the church.

With Elena's appearance, a broken sword also appeared in Elena's hand in the dream, and a chilling killing intent instantly enveloped Elena.

"Wait a minute, I'd like to say a few words before we start!"

"what?"

"Besides killing you, is there any other way for me to remember those memories?" Elena was fed up with that vague feeling, especially after Elise went to the Eternal Church's headquarters today.

She was initially pleased with herself for having advanced to the fourth rank, but she found that she still couldn't do anything.

When Elena saw the expression on her other self's face in her dream, a slightly sickly smile appeared on her own: "You felt it too, that feeling of helplessness of not being able to do anything, it must be very painful."

"You know, someone who's so afraid of death ended up shielding me from a fatal attack. Isn't that funny?"

Elena stared blankly at her own laughing self, watching the other person laugh and cry at the same time.

The frenzied yet sorrowful feeling of her other self made her somewhat dazed and panicked, and the image of that blurry figure blocking her way involuntarily surfaced in her mind.

The laughter gradually subsided and then disappeared. In her dream, Elena wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes and stared intently at herself: "I really envy you. You still have a chance to turn everything around. Actually, even if I didn't say it, you should have already sensed it, right? Who exactly is she?"

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"It really was her?" Elena murmured, the image of Iris flashing through her mind.

"That's right, someone I should have protected, but in the end I became the one being protected."

"I promised to protect her, but I failed to do so."

"I'm a piece of trash."

A soft sigh escaped her lips. In the dream, Elena raised her hand and pointed the broken sword at Elena, saying, "If you want to gain those memories in advance, you can. I can even let you experience every single detail of them."

"I will put you into a memory. Your job is simple: just make sure she survives, by any means necessary, whether it's escaping with her or killing the enemy, any method you can think of."

"If she dies, that memory will loop again until you successfully complete your objective."

"How is it? It's very simple, right?"

"You are the one who dances with me, and I am the one who starts you. You should know very well that I will not believe your words, and you should also know what choice I will make." Elena looked calmly at her other self.

"Very well!" In her dream, Elena threw down her broken sword, spread her arms wide, and her face was filled with madness: "Then let the past...reappear!"

After a moment of disorientation, when Elena came to her senses, she found herself in Elise's room without knowing when she had appeared, and her fourth-tier power had somehow reverted to third-tier, which made her very uncomfortable.

Did you hear what I just said?

Upon hearing Elise's voice, Elena instinctively turned her head and saw that the other woman was glaring at her angrily. Although she didn't really want to admit it, the woman was indeed adorable.

She was certain that Elise had gone to the Eternal Church's headquarters, the world she remembered.

"What did you just say?"

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"I told you to protect me. If you can't beat her, take me with you and run away. If you can't escape, just leave me behind. She definitely won't care about you."

"Varied……"

Elena had barely opened her mouth when she sensed a chilling killing intent. A figure had appeared on the balcony at some point, a figure Elena recognized—it was Nora.

This scene gave her a sense of déjà vu.

Next, Elise should persuade the other party to cooperate, and the crisis will be resolved.

That's how it should be, but Nora in front of Elise gave Elise a strange feeling. Nora had no intention of listening to Elise at all. She raised her hand and unleashed a sharp sword aura, and rushed towards Elise along with the sword aura.

At this point, Elena, who was only at the third tier, was no match for Nora, who was at the fifth tier. Caught off guard, she was blasted away by Nora's monstrous strength after only a few rounds of fighting.

Just as Elena used the magical shockwave to adjust her stance, Nora had already closed in. Just as the sharp longsword was about to sever her head, in the next instant, the magical shockwave erupted with a huge sound, and Elise knocked her away, allowing Elena to escape the fate of being beheaded.

But the next moment, a beautiful head flew up and fell, rolling a few times like a deflated ball, before stopping in front of her.

Elise's stunning face was stained with crimson blood, and her pale blue pupils had lost their former luster.

"No! No! No!"

As Elena's piercing screams rang out, the chaotic and broken room returned to its original state in the next second, and Elena stood back in the same spot.

In a daze, she heard Elise's voice again: "Did you hear me talking to you just now?"

……

In the early morning, Elena slowly opened her eyes. After waking up, she did not get out of bed, but just lay quietly on the bed, her eyes empty as if she were broken.

After an unknown amount of time, sunlight streamed through the window and fell on her face, gradually restoring the sparkle to her eyes.

She had successfully navigated that familiar yet unfamiliar memory, watching Elise die again and again before her eyes. Each time Elise died, a new memory would appear in her mind. Combined with her understanding of Nora and Elise's prior preparations, she successfully caused Nora to flee.

Gaining her memories should have been a happy thing, but she just couldn't feel happy no matter what.

Pierced through the heart, decapitated, sliced ​​into pieces by sword energy... Elena suddenly leaned over the bed and began to retch.

Trying to calm herself down, Elena lay down again, closed her eyes, and in the blink of an eye, she appeared in the burning church.

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Elena opened her eyes and looked at her other self, and immediately started cursing. As a child who grew up in the abandoned streets, Elena was very proficient in all kinds of swear words. She stood there cursing for half an hour without repeating herself.

Elena remained calm in the dream, and after Elena finished cursing, she said indifferently, "I am you. Cursing me is the same as cursing yourself. Why bother?"

"Just venting." Elena took a deep breath and then said, "Our experiences are quite different."

“Yes, although we are all Elena, you can completely ignore those memories. You can go back to your old ways. If you want to leave, she definitely won’t stop you.”

"But by now, you've already made your choice, haven't you?"

Book 1: Chapter 95 The Temptation of Blasphemy

"I'm curious, why did the Nora I remember choose to take direct action, while the Nora I know made a different choice?"

Elena sat cross-legged on the ground, thinking, "It's a dream anyway, so it doesn't matter if I get my clothes dirty."

"I don't know. In my experience, she's not someone who's easily persuaded. You've been through that period of time, so you should know how Elise tried to convince her."

Elena had just gone through that memory, so she knew how much effort Elise had put into persuading Nora, but to no avail.

However, in her memory, Elise did not seem to have to put in much effort to persuade Nora; in fact, it was quite easy.

"Then do you think it's possible that Nora, like me, can also remember those memories?"

"If she could remember, she would have killed you right then and there," Elena said calmly in her dream.

Elena was stunned for a moment, then realized what she meant: "You killed Nora?"

“That’s right, not just her, but also…” Elena didn’t hear the rest of the sentence because her other self seemed to be half-possessed, muttering something incessantly, and her lifeless, empty pupils seemed to be tinged with madness.

This state lasted for several minutes before Elena in the dream gradually calmed down. She looked up at Elena and said, "If you don't want to regret it for the rest of your life, then go and become stronger. As long as you are strong enough to kill any being, you can protect her."