"All right, no need to read any further. I believe you."
Bernadette reached out to stop George from reading, the corners of her mouth twitching uncontrollably.
She finally understood why her father had never taught her the special script recorded in his diary.
To be honest, when she first heard her father's diary mention that she was his most beloved daughter, she had been rather moved. But that feeling vanished the very next second.
In truth, she understood that given the atmosphere in Intis back then, her father could not possibly have been all that pure. That was normal, and she could understand it.
But Witches—and twice at that. Father, you really...
At her level, she naturally knew the general situation of the Witch pathway. She knew that basically all Witches had once been men.
"I know you sought out my father's diary because you want to collect Blasphemy Cards. I have many of my father's diaries.
"I don't want the Blasphemy Card. You only need to tell me what happened to my father in his later years."
"You think your father isn't dead?"
George immediately guessed Bernadette's true purpose.
"But if he really succeeded in advancing, then it is indeed possible."
He flipped the Black Emperor card open to the section introducing Sequence Zero, the Black Emperor.
The Black Emperor's advancement ritual was to possess one's own nation, establish a set of rules that defied convention, rule the people, and secretly construct nine pyramid-like mausoleums.
Then, one entered one of them and ingested the Potion to advance.
Once the advancement succeeded, as long as the nine mausoleums had not all been destroyed, one might return from death even after being killed.
"One of my father's mausoleums has yet to be discovered."
Bernadette's eyes gradually widened. After persisting in her